Complete Genome Sequence of Mesorhizobium ciceri Strain R30, a Rhizobium Used as a Commercial Inoculant for Chickpea in Argentina

Emiliano Foresto (1) , Santiago Revale (2) , Emiliano Primo (1) , Fiorela Nievas (1) , Evangelina Carezzano (1) , Mariana Puente (3) , Pedro Alzari (4) , Mariano Martínez (4) , Mathilde Ben-Assaya (4) , Damien Mornico (5) , Maricel Santoro (6) , Francisco Martínez-Abarca (7) , Walter Giordano (1) , Pablo Bogino (1)

1 UNRC - National University of Río Cuarto = Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto
2 The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics [Oxford]
3 Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria
4 Microb. Struc. (UMR_3528 / U-Pasteur_5) - Microbiologie structurale - Structural Microbiology
5 Hub Bioinformatique et Biostatistique - Bioinformatics and Biostatistics HUB
6 Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
7 Grupo de Ecología Genética, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Granada

We report the complete genome sequence of Mesorhizobium ciceri strain R30, a rhizobium strain recommended and used as a commercial inoculant for chickpea in Argentina. The genome consists of almost 7 Mb, distributed into two circular replicons: a chromosome of 6.49 Mb and a plasmid of 0.46 Mb.

Domains: Environmental Sciences; Biodiversity and Ecology

Emiliano Foresto, Santiago Revale, Emiliano Primo, Fiorela Nievas, Evangelina Carezzano, et al.. Complete Genome Sequence of Mesorhizobium ciceri Strain R30, a Rhizobium Used as a Commercial Inoculant for Chickpea in Argentina. Microbiology Resource Announcements, In press, ⟨10.1128/mra.00779-22⟩. ⟨pasteur-03845036⟩