Companilactobacillus kimchii

Companilactobacillus kimchii is a bacteriocin-producing lactic acid bacterium of the genus Companilactobacillus. It is named for and found in the Korean fermented-vegetable food kimchi.^[3]

Companilactobacillus kimchii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Lactobacillales
Family:	Lactobacillaceae
Genus:	Companilactobacillus
Species:	C. kimchii
Binomial name
Companilactobacillus kimchii (Yoon et al. 2000) Zheng et al. 2020[1]
Synonyms
Lactobacillus kimchii Yoon et al. 2000[2]

The cells of C. kimchii are short, slender and rod-shaped. The bacterium is Gram-positive, non-spore-forming and non-motile.^[2]