Draft Genome Sequence of Aquitalea magnusonii Strain H3, a Plant Growth-Promoting Bacterium of Duckweed (Lemna minor)

Hidehiro Ishizawa; Masashi Kuroda; Michihiko Ike

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00812-17

Draft Genome Sequence of Aquitalea magnusonii Strain H3, a Plant Growth-Promoting Bacterium of Duckweed (Lemna minor)

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 17;5(33):e00812-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00812-17.

Authors

Hidehiro Ishizawa¹, Masashi Kuroda¹, Michihiko Ike²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
² Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan ike@see.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp.

Abstract

Aquitalea magnusonii strain H3 is a promising plant growth-promoting bacterium for duckweed. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of strain H3 comprising 4,750,601 bp in 73 contigs. Several genes associated with plant root colonization were identified.