Pediococcus stilesii
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Phylum Bacillota (Firmicutes), Class Bacilli, Order Lactobacillales, Family Lactobacillaceae, Genus Pediococcus, Pediococcus stilesii
Franz et al. 2006.
Gram-positive cocci, 0.6-1.2 µm in diameter, occuring singly, in pairs and tetrads.
Non-motile. Non-spore-forming.
Colonies are white, smooth and circular with a convex elevation and an entire margin.
Grows at pH 4.5-9.0. Growth occurs at 35, 40 and 45 ºC, not at 48 ºC. Grows in up to
8% NaCl. Facultatively anaerobic.
Isolated from white maize grains.
Undetermined.
  1. Franz CM, Vancanneyt M, Vandemeulebroecke K, De Wachter M, Cleenwerck I, Hoste B, Schillinger U, Holzapfel WH, Swings J.
    Pediococcus stilesii sp. nov., isolated from maize grains. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:329-333.
  2. Wilhelm H. Holzapfel, Charles M.A.P. Franz, Wolfgang Ludwig and Leon M.T. Dicks, 2009. Genus III. Pediococcus Claussen 1903.
    In: (Eds.) P.D. Vos, G. Garrity, D. Jones, N.R. Krieg, W. Ludwig, F.A. Rainey, K.-H. Schleifer, W.B. Whitman. Bergey’s Manual of
    Systematic Bacteriology, Volume 3: The Firmicutes, Springer, 465-511.
Homofermentative.

Positive results for esculin hydrolysis, acid production from amygdalin, arbutin, cellobiose, esculin, fructose, glucose, galactose,
gentiobiose, mannose, maltose, N-acetylglucosamine, ribose, salicin, and tagatose.

Negative results for catalase, nitrate reduction, oxidase, acid production from D- and L-arabinose, D- and L-arabitol, adonitol, dulcitol,
erythritol, D- and L-fucose, glycerol, glycogen, potassium gluconate, potassium 2- and 5-ketogluconate, inositol, inulin, lactose,
lyxose, mannitol, methyl alpha-D-mannopyranoside, methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside, melibiose, melezitose, raffinose, rhamnose,
sorbitol, sorbose, starch, sucrose, trehalose, turanose, methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside xylitol, D- and L-xylose.
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