ABSTRACT
Pseudomonas punonensis strain D1-6 was isolated from roots of the desert plant Erodium hirtum, near the Dead Sea in Jordan. The genome of strain D1-6 reveals several key plant growth–promoting and herbicide-resistance genes, indicating a possible specialized role for this endophyte.
GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT
Herbicides are chemical compounds that are used in agriculture to fight off weeds and invading species of other noncrop plants. Recent discoveries have indicated that herbicides might be generated from microbial sources such as plant endophytes to protect plants from invasive and parasitic plant species (1, 2). Some of these endophytes produce antiherbicide properties that can counteract the function of commercial herbicides. Many of the species belong to the Pseudomonas genus (3, 4). In this study, we isolated P. punonensis strain D1-6 from surface-sterilized roots of the desert plant Erodium hirtum near the Dead Sea (31° 40.077 N; 35° 34.538E) in Jordan. Based on 16S rRNA gene analysis, strain D1-6 was closely related to P. punonensis (NR_109583) with 99% identity (5) and related to P. fulva (NR_074659) isolated from rice paddies. Genomic DNA of strain D1-6 was extracted using Qiagen’s DNeasy blood and tissue kit following the manufacturer’s protocol. The DNA library was constructed as described previously and then sequenced using paired-end reads by Illumina MiSeq (6).
MegaBLAST (7) searches of the strain D1-6 concatenated genome against the NCBI reference genome database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome) revealed that the closest relative genome belonged to P. fulva 12-X (CP002727) isolated from rice paddies with a query coverage of 77% and sequence similarity of 91%. We used SPAdes assembler version 3.6 with a 1-kb contig cutoff size (8) for contig assembly and then used the Indigo pipeline (9) for gene annotation and predicted open reading frames (ORFs) using FragGeneScan (10). De novo assembly of MiSeq reads for strain D1-6 resulted in 32 contigs with a total length of 4,534,589 bp and a mean contig size of 141,706 bp. The N50 was 322,232 bp and the L50 was reached in six contigs; the GC content of this genome was 61.4%. The annotation of P. punonensis strain D1-6 resulted in 3,244 ORFs, six rRNAs, 58 tRNAs, and 103 ncRNAs.
P. punonensis strain D1-6 produces the well-known plant growth–promoting enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase (ACC deaminase) (EC: 3.5.99.7, K01505) (11). Other plant growth–promoting enzymes such as cholesterol oxidase (EC: 1.1.3.6) provide insect resistance (12), and polygalacturonase (EC: 3.2.1.15) increases plant resistance to both fungal and bacterial pathogens via oligogalacturonide release (13). The presence of arginine decarboxylase (EC: 4.1.1.19) was shown to increase plant resistance to salinity, heat, and dehydration (14). P. punonensis strain D1-6 encodes for phosphinothricin acetyltransferase genes (EC: 2.3.1.183) that are responsible for herbicide resistance (15). The genome of P. punonensis strain D1-6 also encodes for many enzymes that have been identified as targets for the development of herbicide-resistant plants, e.g., quinate/shikimate dehydrogenase (EC: 1.1.1.282) (16), 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (EC: 1.13.11.27) (17). The finding of phosphinothricin (PPT) and other herbicide-resistance genes in P. punonensis strain D1-6 may indicate a possible role for this endophyte for providing the plant host with herbicide resistance.
Accession number(s).
The genome of Pseudomonas punonensis D1-6 was deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession number LWHA00000000. The version described in this paper is the first version, LWHA01000000.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Genome sequencing was performed at the biological core laboratories of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. We are grateful for the use of the Dragon and Snap Dragon computer clusters at the Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) at KAUST.
This work was supported by a base fund research grant to H.H. from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The computational aspect of this work was supported by KAUST Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under awards URF/1/1976-02 and FCS/1/2448-01 to V.B.B.
Footnotes
Citation Lafi FF, AlBladi ML, Salem NM, Al-Banna L, Alam I, Bajic VB, Hirt H, Saad MM. 2017. Draft genome sequence of the plant growth–promoting Pseudomonas punonensis strain D1-6 isolated from the desert plant Erodium hirtum in Jordan. Genome Announc 5:e01437-16. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.01437-16.
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