%0 Journal Article %A Watanabe, Koichi %A Fujimoto, Junji %A Tomii, Yasuaki %A Sasamoto, Masae %A Makino, Hiroshi %A Kudo, Yuko %A Okada, Sanae %T Lactobacillus kisonensis sp. nov., Lactobacillus otakiensis sp. nov., Lactobacillus rapi sp. nov. and Lactobacillus sunkii sp. nov., heterofermentative species isolated from sunki, a traditional Japanese pickle %D 2009 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 59 %N 4 %P 754-760 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.004689-0 %K LAB, lactic acid bacteria %K AFLP, amplified fragment length polymorphism %I Microbiology Society, %X Thirty six Gram-positive, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming, non-motile bacterial strains were isolated from the non-salted pickle solution used in producing sunki products, a traditional Japanese pickle. The novel strains were discriminated and separated into four groups by amplified fragment length polymorphism profiling, and by analysis based on recA gene sequences. The strains were classified into four species groups belonging to the Lactobacillus buchneri species group, which consists of L. buchneri, Lactobacillus diolivorans, Lactobacillus hilgardii, Lactobacillus kefiri, Lactobacillus parabuchneri and Lactobacillus parakefiri. The phenotypic and genotypic features of the four groups demonstrated that they represented four novel species, for which the names Lactobacillus kisonensis sp. nov. (type strain YIT 11168T=NRIC 0741T=JCM 15041T=DSM 19906T), Lactobacillus otakiensis sp. nov. (type strain YIT 11163T=NRIC 0742T=JCM 15040T=DSM 19908T), Lactobacillus rapi sp. nov. (type strain YIT 11204T=NRIC 0743T=JCM 15042T=DSM 19907T) and Lactobacillus sunkii sp. nov. (type strain YIT 11161T=NRIC 0744T=JCM 15039T=DSM 19904T) are proposed. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.004689-0