Draft Genome Sequence of Plant Growth-Promoting Micrococcus luteus Strain K39 Isolated from Cyperus conglomeratus in Saudi Arabia

Feras F Lafi; Juan S Ramirez-Prado; Intikhab Alam; Vladimir B Bajic; Heribert Hirt; Maged M Saad

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01520-16

Draft Genome Sequence of Plant Growth-Promoting Micrococcus luteus Strain K39 Isolated from Cyperus conglomeratus in Saudi Arabia

Genome Announc. 2017 Jan 26;5(4):e01520-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01520-16.

Authors

Feras F Lafi^{1

2}, Juan S Ramirez-Prado¹, Intikhab Alam², Vladimir B Bajic², Heribert Hirt³, Maged M Saad¹

Affiliations

¹ King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division (BESE), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
² Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
³ King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division (BESE), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia heribert.hirt@kaust.edu.sa.

Abstract

Micrococcus luteus strain K39 is an endophyte bacterium isolated from roots of the desert plant Cyperus conglomeratus collected from the Red Sea shore, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. The draft genome sequence of strain K39 revealed a number of enzymes involved in salinity and oxidative stress tolerance or having herbicide-resistance activity.