Draft Genome Sequences of the Onion Center Rot Pathogen Pantoea ananatis PA4 and Maize Brown Stalk Rot Pathogen P. ananatis BD442

Tania Weller-Stuart; Wai Yin Chan; Teresa A Coutinho; Stephanus N Venter; Theo H M Smits; Brion Duffy; Teresa Goszczynska; Don A Cowan; Pieter de Maayer

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00750-14

Draft Genome Sequences of the Onion Center Rot Pathogen Pantoea ananatis PA4 and Maize Brown Stalk Rot Pathogen P. ananatis BD442

Genome Announc. 2014 Aug 7;2(4):e00750-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00750-14.

Authors

Tania Weller-Stuart¹, Wai Yin Chan¹, Teresa A Coutinho², Stephanus N Venter¹, Theo H M Smits³, Brion Duffy³, Teresa Goszczynska⁴, Don A Cowan⁵, Pieter de Maayer⁵

Affiliations

¹ Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Department of Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
² Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Department of Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa teresa.coutinho@fabi.up.ac.za.
³ Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Research Group, Institute for Natural Resources Sciences, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland.
⁴ Agricultural Research Council, Plant Protection Research Institute (ARC-PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa.
⁵ Centre of Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Abstract

Pantoea ananatis is an emerging phytopathogen that infects a broad spectrum of plant hosts. Here, we present the genomes of two South African isolates, P. ananatis PA4, which causes center rot of onion, and BD442, isolated from brown stalk rot of maize.