Draft Genome Sequence of Rice Endophyte-Associated Isolate Kosakonia oryzae KO348

Xianfa Meng; Iris Bertani; Pamela Abbruscato; Pietro Piffanelli; Danilo Licastro; Changhai Wang; Vittorio Venturi

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00594-15

Draft Genome Sequence of Rice Endophyte-Associated Isolate Kosakonia oryzae KO348

Genome Announc. 2015 Jun 4;3(3):e00594-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00594-15.

Authors

Xianfa Meng, Iris Bertani¹, Pamela Abbruscato², Pietro Piffanelli², Danilo Licastro³, Changhai Wang⁴, Vittorio Venturi⁵

Affiliations

¹ Bacteriology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Trieste, Italy.
² Rice Genomics Unit, Parco Tecnologico Padano, Localita Cascina Codazza, Lodi, Italy.
³ Cluster in Biomedicine (CBM) SCRL-Genomics, Area Science Park, Basovizza, Trieste, Italy.
⁴ Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.
⁵ Bacteriology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Trieste, Italy venturi@icgeb.org.

Abstract

Kosakonia oryzae KO348 is an endophytic and plant growth-promoting strain isolated from the roots of rice in Italy. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Kosakonia oryzae KO348.