Draft Genome Sequence of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus Strain GK1, a Hydrocarbon-Degrading Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizospheric Bacterium

Panagiotis Gkorezis; Eric M Bottos; Jonathan D Van Hamme; Andrea Franzetti; Gennaro Roberto Abbamondi; Maria Balseiro-Romero; Nele Weyens; Francois Rineau; Jaco Vangronsveld

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00909-15

Draft Genome Sequence of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus Strain GK1, a Hydrocarbon-Degrading Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizospheric Bacterium

Genome Announc. 2015 Aug 13;3(4):e00909-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00909-15.

Authors

Panagiotis Gkorezis¹, Eric M Bottos², Jonathan D Van Hamme², Andrea Franzetti³, Gennaro Roberto Abbamondi⁴, Maria Balseiro-Romero⁵, Nele Weyens¹, Francois Rineau¹, Jaco Vangronsveld⁶

Affiliations

¹ Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
² Thompson Rivers University, Department of Biological Sciences, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
³ University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Environmental Sciences, Milano, Italy.
⁴ CNR, National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy.
⁵ University of Santiago de Compostela, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
⁶ Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Diepenbeek, Belgium jaco.vangronsveld@uhasselt.be.

Abstract

The 3.94-Mb draft genome of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus GK1, a hydrocarbonoclastic plant growth-promoting Gram-negative rhizospheric bacterium, is presented here. Isolated at the Ford Motor Company site in Genk, Belgium, from poplar trees planted on a diesel-contaminated plume, GK1 is useful for enhancing hydrocarbon phytoremediation.