Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus pumilus SCAL1, an Endophytic Heat-Tolerant Plant Growth-Promoting Bacterium

Tehmeena Mukhtar; Muhammad S Afridi; Robyn McArthur; Jonathan D Van Hamme; Francois Rineau; Tariq Mahmood; Amna; Sumaira; Muhammad Zahid; Abdul Salam; Muhammad N Khan; Fawad Ali; Shehzad Mehmood; Naila Bangash; Hassan J Chaudhary

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00306-18

Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus pumilus SCAL1, an Endophytic Heat-Tolerant Plant Growth-Promoting Bacterium

Genome Announc. 2018 May 3;6(18):e00306-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00306-18.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Center for Environmental Sciences, University Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium.
⁴ Department of Genetics, Hazara University Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
⁵ Department of Biotechnology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
⁶ Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan.
⁷ Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
⁸ Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan hassaan@qau.edu.pk.

Abstract

Bacillus pumilus strain SCAL1 is an endophytic, thermophilic plant that was isolated from the leaf of a plant, Solanum lycopersicum L., in Sindh, Pakistan. B. pumilus strain SCAL1 has usually exhibited high resistance to environmental stresses, with a growth temperature ranging from 30 to 60°C. An approximately 3.75-Mb draft genome was assembled into 68 contigs.