Levilactobacillus bambusae, 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 : 2837

DESCRIPTION OF LEVILACTOBACILLUS BAMBUSAE COMB. NOV.

Levilactobacillus bambusae (bam.bu’sae. N.L. gen. n. bambusae of the plant genus Bambusa from which the type strain was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus bambusae Guu et al. 2018, 2428 VP

Characteristics of the species are as described [ 292]; L. bambusae is more distantly related to other species in Levilactobacillus than any other species in the genus as documented by AAI, G+C content and genome size. The genome size of the type strain is 1.97 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 46.3.

Isolated from traditional fermented bamboo shoots.

The type strain is BS-W1 T = BCRC 80970 T = NBRC 112377 T .

Genome sequence accession number: QCXQ00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: KX400838 .