Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus Species from the Rhizosphere of the Desert Plant Rhazya stricta

S E M Abo-Aba; Jamal S M Sabir; Mohammed N Baeshen; Meshaal J Sabir; Mohammed H Z Mutwakil; Nabih A Baeshen; Rosalinda D'Amore; Neil Hall

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00957-15

Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus Species from the Rhizosphere of the Desert Plant Rhazya stricta

Genome Announc. 2015 Nov 5;3(6):e00957-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00957-15.

Authors

S E M Abo-Aba¹, Jamal S M Sabir¹, Mohammed N Baeshen¹, Meshaal J Sabir¹, Mohammed H Z Mutwakil¹, Nabih A Baeshen¹, Rosalinda D'Amore², Neil Hall³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Biotechnology Research Group, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
² Institute for Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Biotechnology Research Group, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Institute for Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom neilhall@liv.ac.uk.

Abstract

In order to better understand the ecology and diversity of microbes in the rhizosphere of desert plants, we undertook a survey of Bacillus species isolated from soil around Rhazya stricta plants from the area around Jeddah, in The Kingdom, Saudi Arabia. We have sequenced the genomes of 8 Bacillus isolates representing four different species.