Lentilactobacillus rapi, 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 : 2846

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.

The type strain is YIT 11204 T = DSM 19907 T = JCM 15042 T = NRIC 0743 T .

Genome sequence accession number: AZEI00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AB366389 .