Journal
STANDARDS IN GENOMIC SCIENCES
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 602-613Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.4056/sigs.4929626
Keywords
root-nodule bacteria; nitrogen fixation; rhizobia; Alphaproteobacteria
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- US Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program
- University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- Los Alamos National Laboratory [DE-AC02-06NA25396]
- Murdoch University Strategic Research Fund through the Crop and Plant Research Institute (CaPRI)
- Centre for Rhizobium Studies (CRS) at Murdoch University
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Ensifer meliloti strain RRI128 is an aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod. RRI128 was isolated from a nodule recovered from the roots of barrel medic (Medicago truncatula) grown in the greenhouse and inoculated with soil collected from Victoria, Australia. The strain is used in commercial inoculants in Australia. RRI128 nodulates and forms an effective symbiosis with a diverse range of lucerne cultivars (Medicago sativa) and several species of annual medic (M. truncatula, Medicago littoralis and Medicago tornata), but forms an ineffective symbiosis with Medicago polymorpha. Here we describe the features of E. meliloti strain RRI128, together with genome sequence information and annotation. The 6,900,273 bp draft genome is arranged into 156 scaffolds of 157 contigs, contains 6,683 protein-coding genes and 87 RNA-only encoding genes, and is one of 100 rhizobial genomes sequenced as part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute 2010 Genomic Encyclopedia for Bacteria and Archaea-Root Nodule Bacteria (GEBA-RNB) project.
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