title: High-quality permanent draft genome sequence of Rhizobium sullae strain WSM1592; a Hedysarum coronarium microsymbiont from Sassari, Italy.
abstract: Rhizobium sullae strain WSM1592 is an aerobic, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod that was isolated from an effective nitrogen (N2) fixing root nodule formed on the short-lived perennial legume Hedysarum coronarium (also known as Sulla coronaria or Sulla). WSM1592 was isolated from a nodule recovered from H. coronarium roots located in Ottava, bordering Sassari, Sardinia in 1995. WSM1592 is highly effective at fixing nitrogen with H. coronarium, and is currently the commercial Sulla inoculant strain in Australia. Here we describe the features of R. sullae strain WSM1592, together with genome sequence information and its annotation. The 7,530,820 bp high-quality permanent draft genome is arranged into 118 scaffolds of 118 contigs containing 7.453 protein-coding genes and 73 RNA-only encoding genes. This rhizobial genome is sequenced as part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute 2010 Genomic Encyclopedia for Bacteria and Archaea-Root Nodule Bacteria (GEBA-RNB) project.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia, Australia ; Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia Australia.
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yates
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia Australia.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Howieson
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia Australia.
authors.forename: Sofie E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: De Meyer
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia Australia.
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut, Creek, CA USA.
authors.forename: Rekha
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Seshadri
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut, Creek, CA USA.
authors.forename: Amrita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pati
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut, Creek, CA USA.
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Woyke
authors.affiliation: Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA USA.
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Markowitz
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut, Creek, CA USA.
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ivanova
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut, Creek, CA USA ; Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Nikos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kyrpides
authors.affiliation: Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Loi
authors.affiliation: Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: Brad
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nutt
authors.affiliation: Department of Agriculture, University of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Garau
authors.affiliation: Institute for the Animal Production System in the Mediterranean Environment (ISPAAM), National Research Council (CNR), Sassari, Italy.
authors.forename: Leonardo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sulas
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia Australia.
authors.forename: Wayne
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Reeve
keywords: Alphaproteobacteria; GEBA-RNB; Nitrogen fixation; Rhizobia; Root-nodule bacteria