Liquorilactobacillus sicerae, 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 : 2820

DESCRIPTION OF LIQUORILACTOBACILLUS SICERAE COMB. NOV.

Liquorilactobacillus sicerae (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 acids are utilized in the presence of glucose [ 205]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.49 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 37.5.

Isolated from spoiled apple cider.

The type strain is CUPV261 T = CECT 8227 T = KCTC 21012 T .

Genome sequence accession number: PRJEB5073.

16S rRNA gene accession number: HG794492 .