Draft Genome Sequence of the Symbiotic Frankia sp. strain B2 isolated from root nodules of Casuarina cunninghamiana found in Algeria

Kathia Belaid; Erik Swanson; Alyssa Carré-Mlouka; Valérie Hocher; Sergio Svistoonoff; Djamel Gully; Stephen Simpson; Krystalynne Morris; W Kelley Thomas; Said Amrani; Louis S Tisa; Hassen Gherbi

doi:10.7150/jgen.38461

Draft Genome Sequence of the Symbiotic Frankia sp. strain B2 isolated from root nodules of Casuarina cunninghamiana found in Algeria

J Genomics. 2020 Jan 19:8:11-15. doi: 10.7150/jgen.38461. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Laboratoire de Biologie du Sol, Faculté des Sciences Biologiques, Université des Sciences et de la Technologies Houari Boumediene (USTHB), BP32 El Alia - Bab Ezzouar Algiers, Algeria.
² Laboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes (IRD/INRA/CIRAD/Université de Montpellier/Supagro), 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
³ University of New Hampshire, 46 College Rd., Durham, New Hampshire, USA, 03824-2617.
⁴ Laboratoire Molécules de Communication et Adaptation des Microorganismes (MCAM) UMR 7245 CNRS-MNHN), Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CP 54, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France.

Abstract

Frankia sp. strain B2 was isolated from Casuarina cunninghamiana nodules. Here, we report the 5.3-Mbp draft genome sequence of Frankia sp. strain B2 with a G+C content of 70.1 % and 4,663 candidate protein-encoding genes. Analysis of the genome revealed the presence of high numbers of secondary metabolic biosynthetic gene clusters.

Keywords: Frankia; Casuarinaceae; actinorhizal symbiosis; genomes; host-microbe interactions; land reclamation; nitrogen fixation.