Abstract
Rhizobium leguminosarum
bv.
trifolii
SRDI943 (strain syn. V2-2) is an aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod that was isolated from a root nodule of
Trifolium michelianum
Savi cv. Paradana that had been grown in soil collected from a mixed pasture in Victoria, Australia. This isolate was found to have a broad clover host range but was sub-optimal for nitrogen fixation with
T. subterraneum
(fixing 20-54% of reference inoculant strain WSM1325) and was found to be totally ineffective with the clover species
T. polymorphum
and
T. pratense
. Here we describe the features of
R. leguminosarum
bv.
trifolii
strain SRDI943, together with genome sequence information and annotation. The 7,412,387 bp high-quality-draft genome is arranged into 5 scaffolds of 5 contigs, contains 7,317 protein-coding genes and 89 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.