Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (Nov 2020)

Complete Genome Sequence Data of Tumorigenic Rhizobium vitis Strain VAT03-9, a Causal Agent of Grapevine Crown Gall Disease

  • Yoshiteru Noutoshi,
  • Atsushi Toyoda,
  • Tomoya Ishii,
  • Kirara Saito,
  • Megumi Watanabe,
  • Akira Kawaguchi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-07-20-0180-A
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 33, no. 11
pp. 1280 – 1282

Abstract

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Rhizobium vitis strain VAT03-9 (MAFF 211676) is a causal agent of crown gall disease in grapevine. It is one of the pathogenic strains of R. vitis isolated from graft unions of grapevine in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Inoculation tests verified its virulence for gall formation on grapevine, tomato, and sunflower. It harbors tumor-inducing plasmid. Here, we present the complete genome sequence with annotation of R. vitis VAR03-9 obtained by assembling reads from PacBio and Illumina-sequencers. This genome sequence should be useful for the analyses of pathogenicity and evolutionary lineage of the pathogens of crown gall disease.[Graphic: see text] Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.

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