DESCRIPTIONOF COMPANILACTOBACILLUS NODENSIS COMB. NOV.

Companilactobacillus nodensis (no.den’sis. N.L. masc. adj. nodensis referring to Noda, the Japanese city in which the type strain was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus nodensis Kashiwagi et al. 2009, 64 VP

Growth is observed between 15 and 37 °C and with pentoses and hexoses but not disaccharides as carbon sources [140]. The genome size is 2.68 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 37.6.

Isolated from fermented rice bran paste and has been used experimentally as adjunct culture in cheese [141].

Thetypestrainis iz4b-1 T =DSM 19682 T =JCM 14932 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZDZ00000000.

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: AB332024.