title: Pseudomonas citronellolis str. P3B5 environmental isolate from phyllosphere material of greenhouse grown basil plants
organism: Pseudomonas citronellolis
description: The gram negative pseudomonad Pseudomonas citronellolis P3B5 was isolated from ready-to-eat basil (Ocimum basilicum) phyllosphere material, i.e. the surface of aboveground plant organs. P. citronellolis has been the subject of many studies including the investigating long-chain alkane degradation, terpene degradation and other biochemical processes. The plant leaf surface is covered by a cuticle that is impregnated with waxes constituted of long-chain aliphatic compounds, and basil is well known to contain high amounts or terpenoid substances hinting to a potential nutrient niche that might be exploited by P. citronellolis on plant leaves. Furthermore, the isolated strain exhibited many antibiotic resistances, including clinically relevant ones, we therefore investigated in how far those resistances are harbored on mobile genetic elements and the potential of the strain to serve as sources of antibiotic resistance genes on ready-to-eat herbs. To our knowledge, this is the first publically available Pseudomonas citronellolis genome.
attributes.tag: strain
attributes.value: P3B5
attributes.tag: host
attributes.value: basil
attributes.tag: isolation_source
attributes.value: phyllosphere material
attributes.tag: collection_date
attributes.value: 2015-06-01
attributes.tag: geo_loc_name
attributes.value: Switzerland: Zurich area
attributes.tag: sample_type
attributes.value: phyllosphere material
attributes.tag: altitude
attributes.value: 521 m
attributes.tag: depth
attributes.value: above ground plant material
attributes.tag: env_biome
attributes.value: basil phyllosphere microbiome
attributes.tag: host_tissue_sampled
attributes.value: phyllosphere
attributes.tag: identified_by
attributes.value: MALDI biotyping
attributes.tag: lat_lon
attributes.value: 47.45 N 8.39999999 E
attributes.tag: BioSampleModel
attributes.value: Microbe, viral or environmental