Reeve Wayne, Terpolilli Jason, Melino Vanessa, Ardley Julie, Tian Rui, De Meyer Sofie, Tiwari Ravi, Yates Ronald, O'Hara Graham, Howieson John, Ninawi Mohamed, Teshima Hazuki, Bruce David, Detter Chris, Tapia Roxanne, Han Cliff, Wei Chia-Lin, Huntemann Marcel, Han James, Chen I-Min, Mavrommatis Konstantinos, Markowitz Victor, Ivanova Natalia, Ovchinnikova Galina, Pagani Ioanna, Pati Amrita, Goodwin Lynne, Peters Lin, Woyke Tanja, Kyrpides Nikos
Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Western Australia, Australia.
Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Western Australia, Australia ; Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia, Australia.
Stand Genomic Sci. 2013 Dec 15;9(2):273-82. doi: 10.4056/sigs.4518260. eCollection 2013 Dec 20.
Bradyrhizobium sp. strain WSM1417 is an aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod that was isolated from an effective nitrogen (N2) fixing root nodule of Lupinus sp. collected in Papudo, Chile, in 1995. However, this microsymbiont is a poorly effective N2 fixer with the legume host Lupinus angustifolius L.; a lupin species of considerable economic importance in both Chile and Australia. The symbiosis formed with L. angustifolius produces less than half of the dry matter achieved by the symbioses with commercial inoculant strains such as Bradyrhizobium sp. strain WSM471. Therefore, WSM1417 is an important candidate strain with which to investigate the genetics of effective N2 fixation in the lupin-bradyrhizobia symbioses. Here we describe the features of Bradyrhizobium sp. strain WSM1417, together with genome sequence information and annotation. The 8,048,963 bp high-quality-draft genome is arranged in a single scaffold of 2 contigs, contains 7,695 protein-coding genes and 77 RNA-only encoding genes, and is one of 20 rhizobial genomes sequenced as part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute 2010 Community Sequencing Program.
