title: High-quality permanent draft genome sequence of the Lebeckia - nodulating Burkholderia dilworthii strain WSM3556(T).
abstract: Burkholderia dilworthii strain WSM3556(T) is an aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod that was isolated from an effective N2-fixing root nodule of Lebeckia ambigua collected near Grotto Bay Nature Reserve, in the Western Cape of South Africa, in October 2004. This plant persists in infertile and deep sandy soils with acidic pH, and is therefore an ideal candidate for a perennial based agriculture system in Western Australia. WSM3556(T) thus represents a potential inoculant quality strain for L. ambigua for which we describe the general features, together with genome sequence and annotation. The 7,679,067 bp high-quality permanent draft genome is arranged in 140 scaffolds of 141 contigs, contains 7,059 protein-coding genes and 64 RNA-only encoding genes, and is part of the GEBA-RNB project proposal.
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, California USA.
authors.forename: Rekha
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Seshadri
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California USA.
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ivanova
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California USA.
authors.forename: Amrita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pati
authors.affiliation: Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California USA.
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Markowitz
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California USA.
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Woyke
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia Australia ; Department of Agriculture and Food, South Perth, 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: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California 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: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia Australia.
authors.forename: Wayne
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Reeve
keywords: Betaproteobacteria; GEBA-RNB; Lebeckia; Nitrogen fixation; Root-nodule bacteria; South Africa