Whole-Genome Sequence of Bacillus cereus AR156, a Potential Biocontrol Agent with High Soilborne Disease Biocontrol Efficacy and Plant Growth Promotion

Chun-Hao Jiang; Yun Chen; Fang Yan; Zhi-Hang Fan; Jian-Hua Guo

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00886-17

Whole-Genome Sequence of Bacillus cereus AR156, a Potential Biocontrol Agent with High Soilborne Disease Biocontrol Efficacy and Plant Growth Promotion

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 31;5(35):e00886-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00886-17.

Authors

Chun-Hao Jiang^{1

2}, Yun Chen^{1

3}, Fang Yan¹, Zhi-Hang Fan¹, Jian-Hua Guo⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Monitoring and Management of Crop Diseases and Pest Insects, Ministry of Agriculture, Engineering Center of Bioresource Pesticide in Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China.
² College of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.
³ Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
⁴ Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Monitoring and Management of Crop Diseases and Pest Insects, Ministry of Agriculture, Engineering Center of Bioresource Pesticide in Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China jhguo@njau.edu.cn.

Abstract

Bacillus cereus AR156 was originally isolated from the forest soil of Zhenjiang, a city in China. To shed new light on the molecular mechanisms underlying the biological control of soilborne pathogens, the whole genome of this strain was sequenced. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of this strain, consisting of a single circularized contig measuring 5.66 Mb, with an average GC content of 35.5% and 5,367 open reading frames.