Fructobacillus

Fructobacillus is a genus of lactic acid bacteria belonging to the family Lactobacillaceae.^[2][3] It is a fructophilic lactic acid bacteria, indicating that it thrives better in fructose than in glucose and is characterized by its inability to produce ethanol.

Fructobacillus
Fructobacillus fructosus, formerly Leuconostoc fructosum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Lactobacillales
Family:	Lactobacillaceae[1]
Genus:	Fructobacillus Endo and Okada 2008[2]
Type species
Fructobacillus fructosus (Kodama 1956) Endo and Okada 2008[2]
Species[3]
Fructobacillus durionis (Leisner et al. 2005) Endo and Okada 2008 Fructobacillus ficulneus (Antunes et al. 2002) Endo and Okada 2008 Fructobacillus fructosus (Kodama 1956) Endo and Okada 2008 Fructobacillus pseudoficulneus (Chambel et al. 2006) Endo and Okada 2008 Fructobacillus tropaeoli Endo et al. 2011

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature^[3][4] and the phylogeny is based on whole-genome sequences.^[1]

	Fructobacillus Fructobacillus pseudoficulneus Fructobacillus tropaeoli Fructobacillus ficulneus Fructobacillus durionis Fructobacillus fructosus outgroup Convivina