lacticaseibacillus manihotivorans lacticaseibacillus manihotivorans lacticaseibacillus manihotivorans is a starch-hydrolysing lactic acid bacterium first isolated during cassava sour starch fermentation (common practise in parts of africa and asia). it is gram-positive, catalase-negative, non-spore-forming, non-motile rod-shaped and homofermentative, with type strain ond 32t. lacticaseibacillus manihotivorans scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: bacillota class: bacilli order: lactobacillales family: lactobacillaceae genus: lacticaseibacillus species: l. manihotivorans binomial name lacticaseibacillus manihotivorans(morlon-guyot et al. 1998) zheng et al. 2020 synonyms lactobacillus manihotivorans morlon-guyot et al. 1998