Draft Genome Sequence of Weissella paramesenteroides STCH-BD1, Isolated from Ensiled Sorghum bicolor

Ashley V Baugh; Thomas M Howarth; Katrina L West; Lydia E J Kerr; John Love; David A Parker; Jeffrey R Fedenko; Richard K Tennant

doi:10.1128/MRA.01328-20

Draft Genome Sequence of Weissella paramesenteroides STCH-BD1, Isolated from Ensiled Sorghum bicolor

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Feb 18;10(7):e01328-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01328-20.

Authors

Ashley V Baugh¹, Thomas M Howarth², Katrina L West², Lydia E J Kerr², John Love², David A Parker^{1

2}, Jeffrey R Fedenko¹, Richard K Tennant^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ Shell International Exploration and Production, Inc., Biodomain, Shell Technology Centre Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
² Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom.
³ Shell International Exploration and Production, Inc., Biodomain, Shell Technology Centre Houston, Houston, Texas, USA R.K.Tennant@exeter.ac.uk.

Abstract

Weissella paramesenteroides has potential as an industrial biocatalyst due to its ability to produce lactic acid. A novel strain of W. paramesenteroides was isolated from ensiled sorghum. The genome was sequenced using a hybrid assembly of Oxford Nanopore and Illumina data to produce a 2-Mbp genome and 22-kbp plasmid sequence.