Draft Genome Sequence of Tumebacillus sp. Strain BK434, Isolated from the Roots of Eastern Cottonwood

Dana L Carper; Christopher W Schadt; Leah H Burdick; Udaya C Kalluri; Dale A Pelletier

doi:10.1128/MRA.00351-20

Draft Genome Sequence of Tumebacillus sp. Strain BK434, Isolated from the Roots of Eastern Cottonwood

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 May 28;9(22):e00351-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00351-20.

Authors

Dana L Carper¹, Christopher W Schadt¹, Leah H Burdick¹, Udaya C Kalluri², Dale A Pelletier²

Affiliations

¹ Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
² Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA kalluriudayc@ornl.gov pelletierda@ornl.gov.

Abstract

A Gram-positive bacterium was isolated from the root of an eastern cottonwood tree (Populus deltoides) in Georgia and identified as a Tumebacillus species with 99% 16S rRNA nucleotide identity to Tumebacillus avium The genome is 4.6 Mbp and encodes 4,072 proteins and 251 RNAs.