Genome Sequence of a Jumbo Bacteriophage That Infects the Kiwifruit Phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae

Joanna K Wojtus; Rebekah A Frampton; Suzanne Warring; Heather Hendrickson; Peter C Fineran

doi:10.1128/MRA.00224-19

Genome Sequence of a Jumbo Bacteriophage That Infects the Kiwifruit Phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 May 30;8(22):e00224-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00224-19.

Authors

Joanna K Wojtus^#^{1

2}, Rebekah A Frampton^#^{3

4}, Suzanne Warring³, Heather Hendrickson¹, Peter C Fineran^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Massey Phage Whānau, School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand.
² School of Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
⁴ The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Lincoln, New Zealand.
⁵ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand peter.fineran@otago.ac.nz.
⁶ Bio-Protection Research Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Bacteriophage ϕPsa21 is a potential biocontrol agent that infects the kiwifruit phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae. ϕPsa21 is a "jumbo" phage with a genome of ∼305 kb. Here, we present the genome sequence of ϕPsa21 and discuss potential genes indicative of the formation of nucleoid structures during viral replication.