skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Genome sequence of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv trifolii strain WSM1689, the microsymbiont of the one flowered clover Trifolium uniflorum

Journal Article · · Standards in Genomic Sciences
DOI:https://doi.org/10.4056/sigs.4988693· OSTI ID:1628690
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [1];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [5];  [6];  [6];  [4];  [6];  [6];  [1]
  1. Murdoch Univ., WA (Australia). Centre for Rhizobium Studies
  2. Murdoch Univ., WA (Australia). Centre for Rhizobium Studies; Dept. of Agriculture and Food, WA (Australia)
  3. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom). Dept. of Plant Sciences; Murdoch Univ., WA (Australia). Sir Walter Murdoch Adjunct Professor
  4. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Bioscience Division
  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Biological Data Management and Technology Center
  6. USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA (United States)

Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii is a soil-inhabiting bacterium that has the capacity to be an effective N2-fixing microsymbiont of Trifolium (clover) species. R. leguminosarum bv. trifolii strain WSM1689 is an aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod that was isolated from a root nodule of Trifolium uniflorum collected on the edge of a valley 6 km from Eggares on the Greek Island of Naxos. Although WSM1689 is capable of highly effective N2-fixation with T. uniflorum, it is either unable to nodulate or unable to fix N2 with a wide range of both perennial and annual clovers originating from Europe, North America and Africa. WSM1689 therefore possesses a very narrow host range for effective N2 fixation and can thus play a valuable role in determining the geographic and phenological barriers to symbiotic performance in the genus Trifolium. Here we describe the features of R. leguminosarum bv. trifolii strain WSM1689, together with the complete genome sequence and its annotation. The 6,903,379 bp genome contains 6,709 protein-coding genes and 89 RNA-only encoding genes. This multipartite genome contains six distinct replicons; a chromosome of size 4,854,518 bp and five plasmids of size 667,306, 518,052, 341,391, 262,704 and 259,408 bp. This rhizobial genome is one of 20 sequenced as part of a DOE Joint Genome Institute 2010 Community Sequencing Program.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Biological Systems Science Division
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396; AC02-05CH11231; AC52-07NA27344
OSTI ID:
1628690
Journal Information:
Standards in Genomic Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 3; ISSN 1944-3277
Publisher:
BioMed CentralCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (36)

What Determines the Efficiency of N2-Fixing Rhizobium-Legume Symbioses? book January 2012
The interactions of Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii in nodulation of annual and perennial Trifolium spp. from diverse centres of origin journal January 2005
Complete genome sequence of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii strain WSM1325, an effective microsymbiont of annual Mediterranean clovers. journal June 2010
Complete genome sequence of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv trifolii strain WSM2304, an effective microsymbiont of the South American clover Trifolium polymorphum. journal February 2010
Selection for acid tolerance inRhizobium meliloti journal September 1988
R Factor Transfer in Rhizobium leguminosarum journal September 1974
The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification journal May 2008
Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. journal June 1990
Approved Lists of Bacterial Names journal January 1980
A revision of Rhizobium Frank 1889, with an emended description of the genus, and the inclusion of all species of Agrobacterium Conn 1942 and Allorhizobium undicola de Lajudie et al. 1998 as new combinations: Rhizobium radiobacter, R. rhizogenes, R. rubi, R. undicola and R. vitis. journal January 2001
OPINION 34: Conservation of the Generic Name Rhizobium Frank 1889 journal January 1970
Revision of the taxonomic status of the species Rhizobium leguminosarum (Frank 1879) Frank 1889AL, Rhizobium phaseoli Dangeard 1926AL and Rhizobium trifolii Dangeard 1926AL. R. trifolii is a later synonym of R. leguminosarum. Reclassification of the strain R. leguminosarum DSM 30132 (=NCIMB 11478) as Rhizobium pisi sp. nov. journal November 2008
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology journal May 2000
MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods journal May 2011
Confidence Limits on Phylogenies: An Approach Using the Bootstrap journal July 1985
The Genomes On Line Database (GOLD) in 2007: status of genomic and metagenomic projects and their associated metadata journal December 2007
Constructs for insertional mutagenesis, transcriptional signal localization and gene regulation studies in root nodule and other bacteria journal June 1999
Solexa Ltd journal June 2004
Genome sequencing in microfabricated high-density picolitre reactors journal July 2005
Base-Calling of Automated Sequencer Traces Using Phred. II. Error Probabilities journal March 1998
Base-Calling of Automated Sequencer Traces Using Phred.  I. Accuracy Assessment journal March 1998
Consed: A Graphical Tool for Sequence Finishing journal March 1998
Prodigal: prokaryotic gene recognition and translation initiation site identification journal March 2010
GenePRIMP: a gene prediction improvement pipeline for prokaryotic genomes journal May 2010
tRNAscan-SE: A Program for Improved Detection of Transfer RNA Genes in Genomic Sequence journal March 1997
RNAmmer: consistent and rapid annotation of ribosomal RNA genes journal April 2007
Rfam: an RNA family database journal January 2003
Predicting transmembrane protein topology with a hidden markov model: application to complete genomes11Edited by F. Cohen journal January 2001
Improved Prediction of Signal Peptides: SignalP 3.0 journal July 2004
IMG ER: a system for microbial genome annotation expert review and curation journal June 2009
Genome-wide identification, structural analysis and expression profiles of GRAS gene family in orchardgrass journal February 2020
Genetic diversity of Amomum xanthioides and its related species from Southeast Asia and China journal May 2021
Changing roles for legumes in Mediterranean agriculture: developments from an Australian perspective journal March 2000
Dietary palmitic acid promotes a prometastatic memory via Schwann cells journal November 2021
Multiplex profiling of serum proteins in solution using barcoded antibody fragments and next generation sequencing journal July 2020
tRNAscan-SE: A Program for Improved Detection of Transfer RNA Genes in Genomic Sequence journal March 1997

Cited By (3)