Draft Genome Sequence of Sinorhizobium meliloti Strain AK170

Olga A Baturina; Victoria S Muntyan; Maria E Cherkasova; Alla S Saksaganskaya; Nikolay I Dzuybenko; Marsel R Kabilov; Marina L Roumiantseva

doi:10.1128/MRA.01571-18

Draft Genome Sequence of Sinorhizobium meliloti Strain AK170

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Jan 3;8(1):e01571-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01571-18. eCollection 2019 Jan.

Authors

Olga A Baturina¹, Victoria S Muntyan², Maria E Cherkasova², Alla S Saksaganskaya², Nikolay I Dzuybenko³, Marsel R Kabilov¹, Marina L Roumiantseva²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICBFM SB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russian Federation.
² All-Russian Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology (ARRIAM), Laboratory of Genetics and Selection of Microorganisms, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
³ N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR), Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.

Abstract

Root nodule bacteria of Sinorhizobium meliloti species live in a symbiotic relationship with alfalfa plants. We report here the draft genome sequence of S. meliloti strain AK170, recovered from nodules of Medicago orthoceras (Kar. & Kir.) growing in an area impacted by salinization.