Abstract
Rhizobium leguminosarum
bv.
trifolii
SRDI565 (syn. N8-J) is an aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod. SRDI565 was isolated from a nodule recovered from the roots of the annual clover
Trifolium subterraneum
subsp.
subterraneum
grown in the greenhouse and inoculated with soil collected from New South Wales, Australia. SRDI565 has a broad host range for nodulation within the clover genus, however N
2
-fixation is sub-optimal with some
Trifolium
species and ineffective with others. Here we describe the features of
R. leguminosarum
bv.
trifolii
strain SRDI565, together with genome sequence information and annotation. The 6,905,599 bp high-quality-draft genome is arranged into 7 scaffolds of 7 contigs, contains 6,750 protein-coding genes and 86 RNA-only encoding genes, and is one of 100 rhizobial genomes sequenced as part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute 2010 Genomic Encyclopedia for
Bacteria
and
Archaea
-Root Nodule
Bacteria
(GEBA-RNB) project.