title: High quality permanent draft genome sequence of Phaseolibacter flectens ATCC 12775(T), a plant pathogen of French bean pods.
abstract: Phaseolibacter flectens strain ATCC 12775(T) (Halpern et al., Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 63:268-273, 2013) is a Gram-negative, rod shaped, motile, aerobic, chemoorganotroph bacterium. Ph. flectens is as a plant-pathogenic bacterium on pods of French bean and was first identified by Johnson (1956) as Pseudomonas flectens. After its phylogenetic position was reexamined, Pseudomonas flectens was transferred to the family Enterobacteriaceae as Phaseolibacter flectens gen. nov., comb. nov. Here we describe the features of this organism, together with the draft genome sequence and annotation. The DNA GC content is 44.34 mol%. The chromosome length is 2,748,442 bp. It encodes 2,437 proteins and 89 RNA genes. Ph. flectens genome is part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Type Strains, Phase I: the one thousand microbial genomes study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Yana
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authors.lastname: Aizenberg-Gershtein
authors.affiliation: Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Ido
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authors.lastname: Izhaki
authors.affiliation: Centre for Algorithmic Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia ; Algorithmic Biology Laboratory, St. Petersburg Academic University, St. Petersburg, Russia.
authors.forename: Alla
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authors.lastname: Lapidus
authors.affiliation: Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Genome Biology Program, Walnut Creek, CA USA.
authors.forename: Alex
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authors.lastname: Copeland
authors.affiliation: Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Genome Biology Program, Walnut Creek, CA USA.
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authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.affiliation: Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Genome Biology Program, Walnut Creek, CA USA.
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authors.lastname: Huntemann
authors.affiliation: Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA USA.
authors.forename: Manoj
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authors.lastname: Pillay
authors.affiliation: Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA USA.
authors.forename: Victor
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authors.lastname: Markowitz
authors.affiliation: Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany.
authors.forename: Markus
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authors.lastname: Göker
authors.affiliation: Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Genome Biology Program, Walnut Creek, CA USA.
authors.forename: Tanja
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authors.lastname: Woyke
authors.affiliation: School of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
authors.forename: Hans-Peter
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Klenk
authors.affiliation: Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Genome Biology Program, Walnut Creek, CA USA ; Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Nikos C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Kyrpides
authors.affiliation: Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel ; Department of Biology and Environment, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Oranim, Kiryat Tivon, Israel.
authors.forename: Malka
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authors.lastname: Halpern
keywords: Enterobacteriaceae; French bean pod; Phaseolibacter flectens; Phaseolus vulgaris; plant pathogen