Draft Genome Sequence of Bradyrhizobium japonicum Is-1, Which Is Incompatible with Rj2 Genotype Soybeans

Tomoyuki Sakata; Yu Kanesaki; Hirofumi Yoshikawa; Hirohito Tsurumaru; Takeo Yamakawa

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01219-15

Draft Genome Sequence of Bradyrhizobium japonicum Is-1, Which Is Incompatible with Rj2 Genotype Soybeans

Genome Announc. 2015 Oct 22;3(5):e01219-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01219-15.

Authors

Tomoyuki Sakata¹, Yu Kanesaki², Hirofumi Yoshikawa³, Hirohito Tsurumaru⁴, Takeo Yamakawa⁵

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
² NODAI Genome Research Center, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Graduate School of Life Science, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan Department of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
⁵ Department of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan yamakawa@agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp.

Abstract

We report the draft genome sequence of Bradyrhizobium japonicum Is-1, which is incompatible with Rj2 genotype soybeans. The estimated genome size of this strain is 8.9 Mb. Genome sequence information of this strain will help to identify a causal gene for this incompatibility.