Draft genome sequence of Frankia sp. strain QA3, a nitrogen-fixing actinobacterium isolated from the root nodule of Alnus nitida

Arnab Sen; Nicholas Beauchemin; David Bruce; Patrick Chain; Amy Chen; Karen Walston Davenport; Shweta Deshpande; Chris Detter; Teal Furnholm; Faten Ghodbhane-Gtari; Lynne Goodwin; Maher Gtari; Cliff Han; James Han; Marcel Huntemann; Natalia Ivanova; Nikos Kyrpides; Miriam L Land; Victor Markowitz; Kostas Mavrommatis; Matt Nolan; Imen Nouioui; Ioanna Pagani; Amrita Pati; Sam Pitluck; Catarina L Santos; Saubashya Sur; Ernest Szeto; Fernando Tavares; Hazuki Teshima; Subarna Thakur; Luis Wall; Tanja Woyke; Jessie Wishart; Louis S Tisa

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00103-13

Draft genome sequence of Frankia sp. strain QA3, a nitrogen-fixing actinobacterium isolated from the root nodule of Alnus nitida

Genome Announc. 2013 Mar 21;1(2):e0010313. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00103-13.

Affiliation

¹ University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA.

Abstract

Members of the actinomycete genus Frankia form a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with 8 different families of actinorhizal plants. We report a high-quality draft genome sequence for Frankia sp. strain QA3, a nitrogen-fixing actinobacterium isolated from root nodules of Alnus nitida.