Complete Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Liberibacter africanus," a Bacterium Associated with Citrus Huanglongbing

Hong Lin; Gerhard Pietersen; Cliff Han; David Alan Read; Binghai Lou; Goutam Gupta; Edwin L Civerolo

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00733-15

Complete Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Liberibacter africanus," a Bacterium Associated with Citrus Huanglongbing

Genome Announc. 2015 Jul 16;3(4):e00733-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00733-15.

Authors

Hong Lin¹, Gerhard Pietersen², Cliff Han³, David Alan Read², Binghai Lou⁴, Goutam Gupta³, Edwin L Civerolo⁵

Affiliations

¹ USDA-ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, Parlier, California, USA hong.lin@ars.usda.gov.
² University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
³ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
⁴ Guangxi Citrus Research Institute, Guilin, China.
⁵ USDA-ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, Parlier, California, USA.

Abstract

We report here the complete genome sequence of "Candidatus Liberibacter africanus" strain PTSAPSY. The 1,192,232-bp genome with 34.5% G+C content comprises 1,017 open reading frames, 44 tRNAs, and three complete rRNAs in a circular chromosome.