title: Xanthomonas vasicola pv. zeae strain Xvz22 raw reads
design: Maize leafs displaying characteristic longitudinal streak symptoms were collected primarily from the warm, dry maize production regions of South Africa. Isolates were collected from parts of South Africa, mainly in the North West, Free State, Northern Cape and Gauteng provinces. Almost all of the isolates were collected from non-irrigated maize fields. Tissue surfaces were sterilized and crushed in a mortar and plated on GYC agar (incubation period of 72 hours at 28C). DNA was extracted directly from pure bacterial colonies. Isolated total DNA was used for 250-bp paired-end sequencing (North-West University, Potchefstroom campus, South Africa) on a MiSeq sequencer (Illumina).
library_name: Xvz22