Genome Sequence of the Octopine-Type Agrobacterium tumefaciens Strain Ach5

Christiaan V Henkel; Amke den Dulk-Ras; Xiaorong Zhang; Paul J J Hooykaas

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00225-14

Genome Sequence of the Octopine-Type Agrobacterium tumefaciens Strain Ach5

Genome Announc. 2014 Mar 27;2(2):e00225-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00225-14.

Authors

Christiaan V Henkel¹, Amke den Dulk-Ras, Xiaorong Zhang, Paul J J Hooykaas

Affiliation

¹ Department of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Abstract

We have sequenced the complete genome of the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain LBA4213, a derivative of the wild-type strain A. tumefaciens Ach5 and the ancestor of A. tumefaciens strain LBA4404 used in genetic engineering. The genome consists of a circular chromosome and a linear chromosome, as well as a megaplasmid and a tumor-inducing plasmid.