DESCRIPTIONOF LIQUORILACTOBACILLUS SICERAE COMB. NOV.

Liquorilactobacillussicerae (si’ce.rae. L. gen. n. sicerae of cider).

Basonym: Lactobacillus sicerae Puertas et al. 2014, 2954 VP

L. sicerae cells are motile rods with polar flagella, they produce exopolysaccharides from sucrose and both malic and citric acidsare utilizedin the presence of glucose [205]. The genome size of thetypestrainis 2.49 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 37.5.

Isolated from spoiled apple cider.

Thetypestrainis CUPV261 T = CECT 8227 T = KCTC 21012 T.

Genome sequence accession number: PRJEB5073.

16S rRNA gene accession number: HG794492.