Rhizobium alamii strain:MD26 Genome sequencing
Legume roots support diverse bacterial communities, and many rhizobia spend much of their life cycle as free-living or root-associated saprophytes rather than inside nodules. Rhizobium alamii was described from exopolysaccharide-producing rhizosphere isolates. We report the complete genome of strain MD26, recovered from beach pea (Lathyrus japonicus) root nodule tissue from a Massachusetts shoreline. The 7.55-Mb genome comprises five circular replicons, three of which have no counterpart in the type strain, and encodes no nodulation or nitrogen-fixation genes.