Description of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum YG 19 Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-flagellated, ovoid, rod-shaped bacterium (0.5-0.7 μm wide, 1.1-1.2 μm long). Colonies grown on MRS agar are white, circular, convex, and glistening. Oxidase activity is negative. In the API 20NE test, cells are positive for nitrate reduction; aesculin hydrolysis; β -galactosidase activity, but negative for indole production; glucose fermentation; gelatin hydrolysis; activity of arginine dihydrolase and urease; and assimilation of D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain YG19 (= NIBRBAC000503327) was isolated from a kimchi sample collected from Yeosu, Republic of Korea (34°44 ʹ 26.0 ʺ N, 127°43 ʹ 58.0 ʺ E). Streptobacterium plantarum was reclassified as Lactiplantibacillus plantarum (Zheng et al., 2020).

Published as part of Kang, Heeyoung, Kim, Haneul, Yi, Hana, Kim, Wonyong, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Myung Kyum, Seong, Chi Nam, Kim, Seung Bum, Cha, Chang-Jun & Joh, Che Ok Jeon and Kiseong, 2021, A report of 43 unrecorded bacterial species within the phyla Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes isolated from various sources from Korea in 2019, pp. 117-133 in Journal of Species Research 10 (2) on page 130, DOI: 10.12651/JSR.2021.10.2.117, http://zenodo.org/record/12753253