Draft Genome Sequence of Frankia Strain G2, a Nitrogen-Fixing Actinobacterium Isolated from Casuarina equisetifolia and Able To Nodulate Actinorhizal Plants of the Order Rhamnales

Imen Nouioui; Maher Gtari; Markus Göker; Faten Ghodhbane-Gtari; Louis S Tisa; Maria P Fernandez; Philippe Normand; Marcel Huntemann; Alicia Clum; Manoj Pillay; Neha Varghese; T B K Reddy; Natalia Ivanova; Tanja Woyke; Nikos C Kyrpides; Hans-Peter Klenk

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00437-16

Draft Genome Sequence of Frankia Strain G2, a Nitrogen-Fixing Actinobacterium Isolated from Casuarina equisetifolia and Able To Nodulate Actinorhizal Plants of the Order Rhamnales

Genome Announc. 2016 May 26;4(3):e00437-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00437-16.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ School of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
² University of Tunis-El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.
³ Leibniz Institute-DSMZ, Braunschweig, Germany.
⁴ University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA.
⁵ Université de Lyon, CNRS, Ecologie Microbienne, INRA, UMR1418, Villeurbanne, France.
⁶ DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
⁷ School of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom hans-peter.klenk@ncl.ac.uk.

Abstract

Frankia sp. strain G2 was originally isolated from Casuarina equisetifolia and is characterized by its ability to nodulate actinorhizal plants of the Rhamnales order, but not its original host. It represents one of the largest Frankia genomes so far sequenced (9.5 Mbp).