- Tanasupawat S, Pakdeeto A, Thawai C, Yukphan P and Okada S, 2007. Identification of lactic acid bacteria from fermented tea
leaves (miang) in Thailand and proposals of Lactobacillus thailandensis sp. nov., Lactobacillus camelliae sp. nov., and
Pediococcus siamensis sp. nov.. J Gen Appl Microbiol 53, 7-15.
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genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae.
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Lactobacillus (Lacticaseibacillus) thailandensis
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Taxonomy
Morphology
Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
References
Phylum Bacillota (Firmicutes), Class Bacilli, Order Lactobacillales, Family Lactobacillaceae, Genus Lactobacillus, Lactobacillus
thailandensis Tanasupawat, Pakdeeto, Thawai, Yukphan and Okada 2007.
Homotypic synonym: Lacticaseibacillus thailandensis (Tanasupawat, Pakdeeto, Thawai, Yukphan and Okada 2007) Zheng et al. 2020.
Gram-positive rods, 0.5-0.6 / 2-6 µm, occurring singly, in pairs or in short chains.
Non-spore-forming. Non-motile.
Colonies are white, low-convex with entire edges, 0.3-1.0 mm in diameter on MRS
agar. Facultative anaerobe. Grows at 15 ºC (weakly); not at 45 ºC. Grows at pH 8.5; not
at 3.5 or 9.0. Grows in 4% NaCl media.
Isolated from fermented tea leaves (miang), Thailand.
Undetermined.
Description is based mostly on API 50 CH results. Homofermentative.
Positive results for acid production from cellobiose, esculin, D-fructose, galactose, glucose (without gas production), mannose, and
salicin.
Negative results for arginine deamination, catalase, acid production from adonitol, arbutin, D-arabinose, D- and L-arabitol, dulcitol,
erythritol, D- and L-fucose, gentiobiose, gluconate, 2- and 5-ketogluconate, glycerol, glycogen, inositol, inulin, D-lyxose, melibiose,
melezitose, N-acetylglucosamine, methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside, methyl alpha-D-xyloside, methylalpha-D-mannopyranoside,
raffinose, rhamnose, ribose, L-sorbose, sorbitol, starch, sucrose, turanose, D-tagatose, trehalose, methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside,
xylitol, D- and L-xylose.
Variable results for acid production from amygdalin, L-arabinose, lactose, maltose, and mannitol.
(c) Costin Stoica