Genome Sequence of Azospirillum brasilense REC3, Isolated from Strawberry Plants

Cecilia Alejandra Fontana; Sergio Miguel Salazar; Daniela Bassi; Edoardo Puglisi; Nadia Lovaisa; Lucía Mercedes Toffoli; Raúl Pedraza; Pier Sandro Cocconcelli

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00089-18

Genome Sequence of Azospirillum brasilense REC3, Isolated from Strawberry Plants

Genome Announc. 2018 Feb 22;6(8):e00089-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00089-18.

Authors

Cecilia Alejandra Fontana¹, Sergio Miguel Salazar^{2

3}, Daniela Bassi⁴, Edoardo Puglisi⁴, Nadia Lovaisa³, Lucía Mercedes Toffoli², Raúl Pedraza³, Pier Sandro Cocconcelli⁴

Affiliations

¹ INTA EEA Famaillá, Tucumán, Argentina fontana.cecilia@inta.gob.ar.
² INTA EEA Famaillá, Tucumán, Argentina.
³ Facultad de Agronomía y Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina.
⁴ Istituto di Microbiologia, Università Cattolica del Saco Cuore, Cremona-Picenza, Italy.

Abstract

The genome sequence of a plant growth-promoting bacterium and biocontrol agent, Azospirillum brasilense REC3, isolated from strawberry roots, is reported here. The A. brasilense REC3 total genome contains 7,229,924 bp and has a G+C content of 68.7 mol%.