Abstract
Here, we report the first genome sequence of a Nocardia plant endophyte, N. casuarinae strain BMG51109, isolated from Casuarina glauca root nodules. The improved high-quality draft genome sequence contains 8,787,999 bp with a 68.90% GC content and 7,307 predicted protein-coding genes.
GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT
Members of the genus Nocardia are ubiquitous soil-borne aerobic microorganisms belonging to a large group of actinobacteria that are best known for their pathogenicity and their harmful infections for humans or animals (1). However, several Nocardia spp. have been consistently reported as plant endophytes and isolated from disinfected roots (N. callitridis [2]), stems (N. artemisiae [3] and N. endophytica [4]), and actinorhizal root nodules (N. autotrophica [5], N. casuarinae [6], and Nocardia sp. [7–9]). The potential role of the Nocardia endophyte has been postulated, especially in the case of actinorhizal symbiosis (5, 10). To the best of our knowledge, these plant-associated Nocardia spp. have not had their genomes sequenced.
We report here the genome sequence of Nocardia casuarinae strain BMG51109, which was isolated from root nodules of Casuarina glauca growing in Tunisia (6). N. casuarinae strain BMG51109 was sequenced to provide new insights into the role that this microbe plays in actinorhizal plants.
The draft genome of N. casuarinae strain BMG51109 was generated at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI; Walnut Creek, CA, USA) using Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) technology. A PacBio SMRTbell library was constructed and sequenced on the PacBio RS platform, which generated 583,909 filtered subreads totaling 1.4 Gbp. All general aspects of library construction and sequencing performed at the JGI can be found at http://www.jgi.doe.gov. The raw reads were assembled using HGAP version 2.0.0 (11). The final draft assembly contained 4 contigs in 4 scaffolds, totaling 8.8 Mbp in size. The input read coverage was 155.7×.
Project information is accessible in the Genomes Online Database (12). Genes were identified using Prodigal (13), followed by a round of manual curation using GenePRIMP (14) as part of the microbial annotation pipeline of the JGI (15). Additional gene prediction analysis and manual functional annotation were performed within the Integrated Microbial Genomes–Expert Review (IMG-ER) platform (http://img.jgi.doe.gov) developed by JGI (16).
The high-quality draft genome of N. casuarinae strain BMG51109 was resolved to 4 scaffolds consisting of 7,730,817 bp, with a G+C content of 68.90%, 7,822 candidate protein-coding genes, 55 tRNA genes, and 3 rRNA regions.
Nucleotide sequence accession numbers.
The Nocardia casuarinae strain BMG51109 genome sequence has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession number JAFQ00000000. The version described in this paper is the first version, JAFQ01000000.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Partial funding by the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. This is Scientific Contribution Number 2678. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This project (L.S.T.) was supported in part by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hatch 022821, and the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA. M.G. and F.G.-G. were supported in part by the Visiting Scientist and Postdoctoral Scientist Program administered by the NH AES at the University of New Hampshire.
Footnotes
Citation Ghodhbane-Gtari F, Beauchemin N, Louati M, Nouioui I, Ktari A, Hezbri K, Gueddou A, Chen A, Huntemann M, Ivanova N, Kyrpides N, Markowitz V, Mavrommatis K, Pagani I, Sen A, Wall L, Woyke T, Gtari M, Tisa LS. 2016. Permanent improved high-quality draft genome sequence of Nocardia casuarinae strain BMG51109, an endophyte of actinorhizal root nodules of Casuarina glauca. Genome Announc 4(4):e00799-16. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00799-16.
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