Draft Genome Sequence of the Plant Growth-Promoting Cupriavidus gilardii Strain JZ4 Isolated from the Desert Plant Tribulus terrestris

Feras F Lafi; Ameerah Bokhari; Intikhab Alam; Vladimir B Bajic; Heribert Hirt; Maged M Saad

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00678-16

Draft Genome Sequence of the Plant Growth-Promoting Cupriavidus gilardii Strain JZ4 Isolated from the Desert Plant Tribulus terrestris

Genome Announc. 2016 Jul 28;4(4):e00678-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00678-16.

Authors

Feras F Lafi¹, Ameerah Bokhari², Intikhab Alam³, Vladimir B Bajic³, Heribert Hirt⁴, Maged M Saad²

Affiliations

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

Abstract

We isolated the plant endophytic bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii strain JZ4 from the roots of the desert plant Tribulus terrestris, collected from the Jizan region, Saudi Arabia. We report here the draft genome sequence of JZ4, together with several enzymes related to plant growth-promoting activity, environmental adaption, and antifungal activity.