DESCRIPTION OF LENTILACTOBACILLUS RAPI COMB. NOV.

Lentilactobacillus rapi (ra’pi. L. gen. n. rapi of a turnip, the substrate for fermented sunki products).

Basonym: Lactobacillus rapi Watanabe et al. 2009, 759 VP

Origin and physiological properties are similar to L. kisonensis [333]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.86 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 43.0.

Isolated from sunki and other vegetable fermentations.

Thetypestrainis YIT 11204 T =DSM 19907 T =JCM 15042 T =NRIC 0743 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZEI00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AB366389.