Draft genome sequence of Agrobacterium pusense strain CMT1: A promising growth-promoting bacterium isolated from nodules of soybean (Glycine max L. Merrill) crops for the One Health approach in Paraguay

Abstract

Strain CMT1 was isolated from nodules of non-inoculated Roundup Ready (RR) soybean plants (Glycine max L. Merrill), which were collected in fields in Itauguá, Paraguay. The genome of this strain had 338,984,909 bp; 59.2 % G + C content; 377648 bp N50; 5 L50; 55 contigs; 51 RNAs and 5,272 predicted coding DNA sequences (CDS) distributed in 327 subsystems. Based on overall genome-relatedness indices (OGRIs), this strain was taxonomically affiliated with Agrobacterium pusense. Based on genome mining, strain CMT1 is a promising plant growth-promoting bacterium that could be validated in agricultural fields for increasing soybean yield and quality, diminishing the economic, environmental, and health costs of non-sustainable food production.

Keywords

• Beneficial bacterium
• Bacterial inoculant
• Biofertilizer
• Whole-genome sequencing