Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus licheniformis Strain GB2, a Hydrocarbon-Degrading and Plant Growth-Promoting Soil Bacterium

Panagiotis Gkorezis; Jonathan Van Hamme; Eric Bottos; Sofie Thijs; Maria Balseiro-Romero; Carmela Monterroso; Petra Suzan Kidd; Francois Rineau; Nele Weyens; Wouter Sillen; Jaco Vangronsveld

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00608-16

Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus licheniformis Strain GB2, a Hydrocarbon-Degrading and Plant Growth-Promoting Soil Bacterium

Genome Announc. 2016 Jun 23;4(3):e00608-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00608-16.

Affiliations

¹ Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
² Thompson Rivers University, Department of Biological Sciences, Kamloops, Canada.
³ University of Santiago de Compostela, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
⁴ Instituto de Investigaciones Agrobiológicas de Galicia (IIAG), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
⁵ Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Diepenbeek, Belgium jaco.vangronsveld@uhasselt.be.

Abstract

We report the 4.39 Mb draft genome of Bacillus licheniformis GB2, a hydrocarbonoclastic Gram-positive bacterium of the family Bacillaceae, isolated from diesel-contaminated soil at the Ford Motor Company site in Genk, Belgium. Strain GB2 is an effective plant-growth promoter useful for diesel fuel remediation applications based on plant-bacterium associations.