Loigolactobacillus iwatensis, 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 : 2817-2818

DESCRIPTION OF LOIGOLACTOBACILLUS IWATENSIS COMB. NOV.

Loigolactobacillus iwatensis (i.wa.ten’sis. N.L. masc. adj. iwatensis of or belonging to Mount Iwate, where the first strains were isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus iwatensis Tohno et al. 2013 , 3856 VP

L. iwatensis strains are facultatively anaerobic, non-sporeforming and non-motile rods. They are homofermentative; they are positive for C4 esterase, leucine aminopeptidase, valine aminopeptidase and acid phosphatase [ 189]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.62 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 40.6.

Isolated from orchardgrass silage.

The type strain is IWT246 T = JCM 18838 T = DSM 26942 T . Genome sequence accession number: RHNP 00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AB773428 .