Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus licheniformis VSD4, a Diesel Fuel-Degrading and Plant Growth-Promoting Phyllospheric Bacterium

Vincent Stevens; Sofie Thijs; Breanne McAmmond; Tori Langill; Jonathan Van Hamme; Nele Weyens; Jaco Vangronsveld

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00027-17

Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus licheniformis VSD4, a Diesel Fuel-Degrading and Plant Growth-Promoting Phyllospheric Bacterium

Genome Announc. 2017 Mar 16;5(11):e00027-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00027-17.

Authors

Vincent Stevens¹, Sofie Thijs¹, Breanne McAmmond², Tori Langill¹, Jonathan Van Hamme², Nele Weyens¹, Jaco Vangronsveld³

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium jaco.vangronsveld@uhasselt.be.

Abstract

We report here the 4.19-Mb draft genome sequence of Bacillus licheniformis VSD4, a Gram-positive bacterium of the Bacillaceae family, isolated from leaves of Hedera helix growing at a high-traffic city center in Belgium. Knowledge about its genome will help to evaluate its potential as an inoculant in phylloremediation applications.