DESCRIPTIONOF COMPANILACTOBACILLUS ALLII COMB. NOV.

Companilactobacillus allii (al’li.i. L. gen. n. allii of Egyptian onions ( Allium proliferum), the source of fermented onions, pa-kimchi, from which the type strain was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus allii Jung et al. 2017, 4939 VP

Growth is observed at 25 and 37 °C; hexoses and disaccharides but not pentoses are fermented [117]. The genome size is 2.51 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 35.3.

Isolated from scallion kimchi.

Thetypestrainis WiKim39 T =KCTC 21077 T =JCM 31938 T.

Genome sequence accession numbers: CP019323 (chromosome) and CP019324 (plasmid).

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: NR_159082.