DESCRIPTIONOF LEVILACTOBACILLUS ZYMAE COMB. NOV.

Levilactobacillus zymae (zy’mae. Gr. fem. n. zyme leaven, sourdough; N.L. gen. n. zymae of sourdough).

Basonym: Lactobacillus zymae Vancanneyt et al. 2005, 619 VP

Characteristics of the species are as described [291]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.71 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 53.6.

Isolatedfromatype Iwheat sourdough, forages andfermented onions.

Thetypestrainis R-18615 T =DSM 19395 T =CCM 7241 T =CCUG 50163 T = JCM 15957 T =LMG 22198 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZDW00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AJ632157.