Permanent Draft Genome Sequence of Frankia sp. Strain BR, a Nitrogen-Fixing Actinobacterium Isolated from the Root Nodules of Casuarina equisetifolia

Timothy D'Angelo; Rediet Oshone; Feseha Abebe-Akele; Stephen Simpson; Krystalynne Morris; W Kelley Thomas; Louis S Tisa

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01000-16

Permanent Draft Genome Sequence of Frankia sp. Strain BR, a Nitrogen-Fixing Actinobacterium Isolated from the Root Nodules of Casuarina equisetifolia

Genome Announc. 2016 Sep 15;4(5):e01000-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01000-16.

Authors

Timothy D'Angelo¹, Rediet Oshone¹, Feseha Abebe-Akele¹, Stephen Simpson¹, Krystalynne Morris¹, W Kelley Thomas¹, Louis S Tisa²

Affiliations

¹ University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA.
² University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA [email protected].

Abstract

Frankia sp. strain BR is a member of Frankia lineage Ic and is able to reinfect plants of the Casuarinaceae family. Here, we report a 5.2-Mbp draft genome sequence with a G+C content of 70.0% and 4,777 candidate protein-encoding genes.