Improved Draft Genome Sequence of Microbacterium sp. Strain LKL04, a Bacterial Endophyte Associated with Switchgrass Plants

Mohammad Radhi Sahib; Piao Yang; Norbert Bokros; Nicole Shapiro; Tanja Woyke; Nikos C Kyrpides; Ye Xia; Seth DeBolt

doi:10.1128/MRA.00927-19

Improved Draft Genome Sequence of Microbacterium sp. Strain LKL04, a Bacterial Endophyte Associated with Switchgrass Plants

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Nov 7;8(45):e00927-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00927-19.

Authors

Mohammad Radhi Sahib^{1

2}, Piao Yang³, Norbert Bokros¹, Nicole Shapiro⁴, Tanja Woyke⁴, Nikos C Kyrpides⁴, Ye Xia⁵, Seth DeBolt⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Horticulture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
² Department of Horticulture, Al-Qasim Green University, Babylon, Iraq.
³ Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
⁴ Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
⁵ Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA xia.374@osu.edu sdebo2@uky.edu.
⁶ Department of Horticulture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA xia.374@osu.edu sdebo2@uky.edu.

Abstract

We report here the genome assembly and analysis of Microbacterium strain sp. LKL04, a Gram-positive bacterial endophyte isolated from switchgrass plants (Panicum virgatum) grown on a reclaimed coal-mining site. The 2.9-Mbp genome of this bacterium was assembled into a single contig encoding 2,806 protein coding genes.