Lactobacillus manihotivorans

Lactobacillus manihotivorans
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Firmicutes
Class: Bacilli
Family: Lactobacillaceae
Genus: Lactobacillus
Species: L. manihotivorans
Binomial name
Lactobacillus manihotivorans
Morlon-Guyot et al. 1998

Lactobacillus manihotivorans is a starch-hydrolysing lactic acid bacterium first isolated during Cassava sour starch fermentation (common practise in parts of Africa and Asia). It is Gram-positive, catalase-negative, non-spore-forming, non-motile rod-shaped and homofermentative, with type strain OND 32T.[1]

References

  1. Morlon-Guyot, J.; Guyot, J. P.; Pot, B.; De Haut, I. J.; Raimbault, M. (1998). "Lactobacillus manihotivorans sp. nov., A New Starch-Hydrolysing Lactic Acid Bacterium Isolated during Cassava sour Starch Fermentation". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 48 (4): 1101–1109. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-4-1101. ISSN 0020-7713.

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