Draft Genome Sequences of Bradyrhizobium elkanii Strains BLY3-8 and BLY6-1, Which Are Incompatible with Rj3 Genotype Soybean Cultivars

Aung Zaw Htwe; Yu Kanesaki; Hirofumi Yoshikawa; Hirohito Tsurumaru; Takeo Yamakawa

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01169-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Bradyrhizobium elkanii Strains BLY3-8 and BLY6-1, Which Are Incompatible with Rj3 Genotype Soybean Cultivars

Genome Announc. 2016 Oct 27;4(5):e01169-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01169-16.

Authors

Aung Zaw Htwe¹, Yu Kanesaki², Hirofumi Yoshikawa³, Hirohito Tsurumaru⁴, Takeo Yamakawa⁵

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.
² NODAI Genome Research Center, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University, Korimoto, Kagoshima, Japan k1759347@kadai.jp.
⁵ Department of Biosciences & Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.

Abstract

We report here the draft genome sequences of Bradyrhizobium elkanii strains BLY3-8 and BLY6-1, which are incompatible with Rj₃ genotype soybean cultivars. The genome sequences of these strains will be useful to identify a causal gene for this incompatibility.