Draft Genome Sequence of Frankia sp. Strain CcI6, a Salt-Tolerant Nitrogen-Fixing Actinobacterium Isolated from the Root Nodule of Casuarina cunninghamiana

Samira R Mansour; Rediet Oshone; Sheldon G Hurst 4th; Krystalynne Morris; W Kelley Thomas; Louis S Tisa

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01205-13

Draft Genome Sequence of Frankia sp. Strain CcI6, a Salt-Tolerant Nitrogen-Fixing Actinobacterium Isolated from the Root Nodule of Casuarina cunninghamiana

Genome Announc. 2014 Jan 16;2(1):e01205-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01205-13.

Authors

Samira R Mansour¹, Rediet Oshone, Sheldon G Hurst 4th, Krystalynne Morris, W Kelley Thomas, Louis S Tisa

Affiliation

¹ Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt.

Abstract

Members of the actinomycete genus Frankia form a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with 8 different families of actinorhizal plants. We report a 5.57-Mbp draft genome sequence for Frankia sp. strain CcI6, a salt-tolerant nitrogen-fixing actinobacterium isolated from root nodules of Casurina cunninghamiana grown in Egyptian soils.