Draft Genome Sequence of Frankia sp. Strain BCU110501, a Nitrogen-Fixing Actinobacterium Isolated from Nodules of Discaria trinevis

Luis G Wall; Nicholas Beauchemin; Michael N Cantor; Eugenia Chaia; Amy Chen; J Chris Detter; Teal Furnholm; Faten Ghodhbane-Gtari; Lynne Goodwin; Maher Gtari; Cliff Han; James Han; Marcel Huntemann; Susan Xinyu Hua; Natalia Ivanova; Nikos Kyrpides; Victor Markowitz; Kostas Mavrommatis; Natalia Mikhailova; Henrik P Nordberg; Imen Nouioui; Galina Ovchinnikova; Ioanna Pagani; Amrita Pati; Arnab Sen; Saubashya Sur; Ernest Szeto; Subarna Thakur; Chia-Lin Wei; Tanja Woyke; Louis S Tisa

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00503-13

Draft Genome Sequence of Frankia sp. Strain BCU110501, a Nitrogen-Fixing Actinobacterium Isolated from Nodules of Discaria trinevis

Genome Announc. 2013 Jul 11;1(4):e00503-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00503-13.

Affiliation

¹ University of Quilmes, Bernal, Argentina.

Abstract

Frankia forms a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with actinorhizal plants. We report a draft genome sequence for Frankia sp. strain BCU110501, a nitrogen-fixing actinobacterium isolated from nodules of Discaria trinevis grown in the Patagonia region of Argentina.