Genome Sequence of Acidovorax avenae Strain T10_61 Associated with Sugarcane Red Stripe in Argentina

Paola D Fontana; Cecilia A Fontana; Daniela Bassi; Edoardo Puglisi; Sergio M Salazar; Graciela M Vignolo; Pier S Coccocelli

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01669-15

Genome Sequence of Acidovorax avenae Strain T10_61 Associated with Sugarcane Red Stripe in Argentina

Genome Announc. 2016 Feb 4;4(1):e01669-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01669-15.

Authors

Paola D Fontana¹, Cecilia A Fontana², Daniela Bassi³, Edoardo Puglisi³, Sergio M Salazar², Graciela M Vignolo⁴, Pier S Coccocelli³

Affiliations

¹ INTA EEA Famaillá, Tucumán, Argentina fontana.paola@inta.gob.ar.
² INTA EEA Famaillá, Tucumán, Argentina.
³ Istituto di Microbiologia, Università Cattolica del Saco Cuore, Cremona-Picenza, Italy.
⁴ CERELA, CONICET, Tucumán, Argentina.

Abstract

Red stripe of sugarcane in Argentina is a bacterial disease caused by Acidovorax avenae. The genome sequence from the first isolate of this bacterium in Argentina is presented here. The draft genome of the A. avenae T10_61 strain contains 5,646,552 bp and has a G+C content of 68.6 mol%.

Grants and funding

Regione Lombardia GENOBACT provided funding for the genome sequencing of Acidovorax avenae T10_61 through grant no. G4171000040002.