Complete Genome Sequence of Sinorhizobium meliloti Strain AK21, a Salt-Tolerant Isolate from the Aral Sea Region

José I Jiménez-Zurdo; Francisco Martínez-Abarca; José F Cobo-Díaz; José A López-Contreras; Manuel Fernández-López; Nicolás Toro

doi:10.1128/MRA.01432-19

Complete Genome Sequence of Sinorhizobium meliloti Strain AK21, a Salt-Tolerant Isolate from the Aral Sea Region

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jan 9;9(2):e01432-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01432-19.

Authors

José I Jiménez-Zurdo¹, Francisco Martínez-Abarca², José F Cobo-Díaz³, José A López-Contreras², Manuel Fernández-López², Nicolás Toro²

Affiliations

¹ Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Rhizobacterial Genomes Research Group, Department of Soil Microbiology and Symbiotic Systems, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Granada, Spain jijz@eez.csic.es.
² Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Rhizobacterial Genomes Research Group, Department of Soil Microbiology and Symbiotic Systems, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Granada, Spain.
³ Departamento de Higiene y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de León, León, Spain.

Abstract

We report here the complete genome sequence of the salt-tolerant Sinorhizobium meliloti strain AK21, isolated from nodules of Medicago sativa L. subsp. ambigua inhabiting the northern Aral Sea Region. This genome (7.36 Mb) consists of a chromosome and four accessory plasmids, two of which are the symbiotic megaplasmids pSymA and pSymB.