DESCRIPTIONOF LACTIPLANTIBACILLUS PINGFANGENSIS COMB. NOV.

Lactiplantibacillus pingfangensis (ping.fang.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. pingfangensis, pertaining to a district in Harbin city, China).

Basonym: Lactobacillus pingfangensis Liu and Gu 2019, 7 VP

Growth is observed at 30 and 37 but not at 45 °C; DL-lactic acid is produced from a wide range of hexoses and disaccharides but not from pentoses [233]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.90 Mbp; the mol% G+C content of DNA is 44.2.

Isolatedfromfermented Chinesecabbage.

Thetypestrainis 382–1 T = LMG 31176 T =NCIMB 15187 T = CCM 8935 T.

Genome sequence accession number: BJDG00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: LC438521.