Draft Genome Sequence of Erwinia tracheiphila, an Economically Important Bacterial Pathogen of Cucurbits

Lori R Shapiro; Erin D Scully; Dana Roberts; Timothy J Straub; Scott M Geib; Jihye Park; Andrew G Stephenson; Erika Salaau Rojas; Quin Liu; Gwyn Beattie; Mark Gleason; Consuelo M De Moraes; Mark C Mescher; Shelby G Fleischer; Roberto Kolter; Naomi Pierce; Olga Zhaxybayeva

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00482-15

Draft Genome Sequence of Erwinia tracheiphila, an Economically Important Bacterial Pathogen of Cucurbits

Genome Announc. 2015 Jun 4;3(3):e00482-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00482-15.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA lori.r.shapiro@gmail.com olga.zhaxybayeva@dartmouth.edu.
² Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
⁴ U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, Tropical Crop and Commodity Protection Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Services, Hilo, Hawaii, USA.
⁵ Graduate Program in Bioinformatics and Genomics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁶ Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁷ Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
⁸ Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Abstract

Erwinia tracheiphila is one of the most economically important pathogens of cucumbers, melons, squashes, pumpkins, and gourds in the northeastern and midwestern United States, yet its molecular pathology remains uninvestigated. Here, we report the first draft genome sequence of an E. tracheiphila strain isolated from an infected wild gourd (Cucurbita pepo subsp. texana) plant. The genome assembly consists of 7 contigs and includes a putative plasmid and at least 20 phage and prophage elements.