Draft Genome Sequence of Beneficial Rice Rhizosphere Isolate Pseudomonas aeruginosa PUPa3

Gordana Uzelac; Iris Bertani; Milan Kojic; Konrad H Paszkiewicz; David J Studholme; Daniel Passos da Silva; Vittorio Venturi

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00654-14

Draft Genome Sequence of Beneficial Rice Rhizosphere Isolate Pseudomonas aeruginosa PUPa3

Genome Announc. 2014 Jul 3;2(4):e00654-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00654-14.

Authors

Gordana Uzelac, Iris Bertani¹, Milan Kojic², Konrad H Paszkiewicz³, David J Studholme³, Daniel Passos da Silva¹, Vittorio Venturi⁴

Affiliations

¹ International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy.
² Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
³ Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom.
⁴ International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy [email protected].

Abstract

Pseudomonas aeruginosa PUPa3 is a rhizosphere-colonizing and plant growth-promoting strain isolated from the rhizosphere of rice. This strain has, however, been shown to be pathogenic in two nonmammalian infection models. Here we report the draft genome sequence of P. aeruginosa PUPa3.