Draft Genome Sequence of the Plant Growth-Promoting Pseudomonas punonensis Strain D1-6 Isolated from the Desert Plant Erodium hirtum in Jordan

Feras F Lafi; Maha L AlBladi; Nida M Salem; Luma Al-Banna; Intikhab Alam; Vladimir B Bajic; Heribert Hirt; Maged M Saad

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01437-16

Draft Genome Sequence of the Plant Growth-Promoting Pseudomonas punonensis Strain D1-6 Isolated from the Desert Plant Erodium hirtum in Jordan

Genome Announc. 2017 Jan 12;5(2):e01437-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01437-16.

Authors

Feras F Lafi^{1

2}, Maha L AlBladi¹, Nida M Salem³, Luma Al-Banna³, Intikhab Alam², Vladimir B Bajic², Heribert Hirt⁴, Maged M Saad¹

Affiliations

¹ King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division (BESE), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
² King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
³ University of Jordan, Department of Agriculture, Amman, Jordan.
⁴ King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division (BESE), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia heribert.hirt@kaust.edu.sa.

Abstract

Pseudomonas punonensis strain D1-6 was isolated from roots of the desert plant Erodium hirtum, near the Dead Sea in Jordan. The genome of strain D1-6 reveals several key plant growth-promoting and herbicide-resistance genes, indicating a possible specialized role for this endophyte.