Draft Genome Sequence of Arthrobacter sp. Strain SPG23, a Hydrocarbon-Degrading and Plant Growth-Promoting Soil Bacterium

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

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01517-15

Draft Genome Sequence of Arthrobacter sp. Strain SPG23, a Hydrocarbon-Degrading and Plant Growth-Promoting Soil Bacterium

Genome Announc. 2015 Dec 23;3(6):e01517-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01517-15.

Authors

Panagiotis Gkorezis¹, Eric M Bottos², Jonathan D Van Hamme², Sofie Thijs¹, Francois Rineau¹, Andrea Franzetti³, Maria Balseiro-Romero⁴, Nele Weyens¹, Jaco Vangronsveld⁵

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, University of Santiago de Compostela, Campus Vida, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
⁵ Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium jaco.vangronsveld@uhasselt.be.

Abstract

We report here the 4.7-Mb draft genome of Arthrobacter sp. SPG23, a hydrocarbonoclastic Gram-positive bacterium belonging to the Actinobacteria, isolated from diesel-contaminated soil at the Ford Motor Company site in Genk, Belgium. Strain SPG23 is a potent plant growth promoter useful for diesel fuel remediation applications based on plant-bacterium associations.