Lactiplantibacillus fabifermentans, Zheng & Wittouck & Salvetti & Franz & Harris & Mattarelli & O’Toole & Pot & Vandamme & Walter & Watanabe & Wuyts & Felis & Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020

Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O’Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4), pp. 2782-2858 : 2826

DESCRIPTION OF LACTIPLANTIBACILLUS FABIFERMENTANS COMB. NOV.

Lactiplantibacillus fabifermentans (fa.bi.fer.men’tans. L. fem. n. faba a bean; L. pres. part. fermentans fermenting; N.L. part. adj. fabifermentans fermenting beans).

Basonym: Lactobacillus fabifermentans De Bruyne et al. 2009 , 10 VP

Cells are non-motile long rods, usually singly, in pairs or in short chains. Colonies are circular with a convex elevation and an entire margin. They grow at 37 °C, pH 3.9 and with 6 % NaCl [ 198]. The genome size of the type strain is 3.28 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 45.0.

Isolated from cocoa bean heap fermentation, fermented grapes, and fermented cereals.

The type strain is R-34115 T = DSM 21115 T = LMG 24284 T .

Genome sequence accession number: AYGX00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AM 905388 .