Lactobacillus manihotivorans | |
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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.