Levilactobacillus koreensis, 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 : 2838

DESCRIPTION OF LEVILACTOBACILLUS KOREENSIS COMB. NOV.

Levilactobacillus koreensis (ko.re.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. koreensis of Korea, where the type strain was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus koreensis Naam Bui et al. 2011 , 774 VP

Characteristics of the species are as described [ 296]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.47 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 49.6.

Isolated from cabbage kimchi and from sourdough.

The type strain is DCY50 T = JCM 16448 T = KCTC 13530 T .

Genome sequence accession number: AZDP00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: FJ904277 .