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. 2013 Jul 11;1(4):e00503-13.
doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00503-13.

Draft Genome Sequence of Frankia sp. Strain BCU110501, a Nitrogen-Fixing Actinobacterium Isolated from Nodules of Discaria trinevis

Luis G Wall  1 , Nicholas Beauchemin, Michael N Cantor, Eugenia Chaia, Amy Chen, J Chris Detter, Teal Furnholm, Faten Ghodhbane-Gtari, Lynne Goodwin, Maher Gtari, Cliff Han, James Han, Marcel Huntemann, Susan Xinyu Hua, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos Kyrpides, Victor Markowitz, Kostas Mavrommatis, Natalia Mikhailova, Henrik P Nordberg, Imen Nouioui, Galina Ovchinnikova, Ioanna Pagani, Amrita Pati, Arnab Sen, Saubashya Sur, Ernest Szeto, Subarna Thakur, Chia-Lin Wei, Tanja Woyke, Louis S Tisa
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Draft Genome Sequence of Frankia sp. Strain BCU110501, a Nitrogen-Fixing Actinobacterium Isolated from Nodules of Discaria trinevis

Luis G Wall et al. Genome Announc. .

Abstract

Frankia forms a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with actinorhizal plants. We report a draft genome sequence for Frankia sp. strain BCU110501, a nitrogen-fixing actinobacterium isolated from nodules of Discaria trinevis grown in the Patagonia region of Argentina.

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