DESCRIPTIONOF LACTIPLANTIBACILLUS PLANTARUM SUBSP. ARGENTORATENSIS COMB. NOV

Lactiplantibacillusplantarum subsp. argentoratensis (ar.gen. to.ra.ten ′ sis. N.L. masc. adj. argentoratensis, of or pertaining to Argentoratus, the Roman name of the City of Strasbourg in Alsace, France).

Basonym: Lactobacillus plantarum subsp. argentoratensis Bringel etal. 2005, 1633 VP

Strains of this species differ from L. plantarum subsp. plantarum strains due to the absence of melezitose fermentation [229]. The genome size of the type strain is 3.20 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 45.

Isolated from starchy food, fermenting food of plant origin, timothy, orchardgrass and elephant grass silage, fermented Uttapam batter, fermented idli batter.

Thetypestrainis DKO 22 T = CCUG 50787 T =CIP 108320 T = DSM 16365 T =JCM 16169 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZFR00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AJ640078.