DESCRIPTIONOF LACTIPLANTIBACILLUS XIANGFANGENSIS COMB. NOV.

Lactiplantibacillus xiangfangensis (xi.ang.fang.en ′ sis. N.L. masc. adj. xiangfangensis, pertaining to Xiangfang, a district of Harbin city in China).

Basonym: Lactobacillus xiangfangensis Gu et al. 2012, 860 VP

Cells are non-spore-forming, facultatively anaerobic rods. They grow at 30 and 37 °C [239]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.99 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 45.1.

Isolated from pickle and sourdough.

Thetypestrainis 3.1.1 T = LMG 26013 T =NCIMB 14687 T.

Genome sequence accession number: JQCL00000000. 16S rRNA gene accession number: HM443954.