Abstract
Plant health can be augmented by plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) that confer biofertilizer, phytostimulation, and biocontrol activities. Herein, we provide the high-quality draft genome sequence of Serratia fonticola strain AU-AP2C, a Gram-negative motile PGPR of the pea plant, conferring phosphate solubilization, ammonia production, and antifungal activity against Fusarium sp. The 4.9-Mb genome contains genes related to plant growth promotion and synthesis of siderophores.
Highlights
Plant health can be augmented by plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) that confer biofertilizer, phytostimulation, and biocontrol activities
AU-AP2C expresses phosphate solubilization and ammonia production, which are helpful in providing free phosphate and nitrogen to the plants, respectively
AU-AP2C produces hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and siderophores that are related to the biocontrol activities of PGPR (Devi, Khatri, Kumar, Kumar, Sharma, Subramanian, and Saini, unpublished)
Summary
Plant health can be augmented by plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) that confer biofertilizer, phytostimulation, and biocontrol activities. Nonpathogenic PGPR members of the Serratia genus have been shown to confer phosphate solubilization [2], indole-3-acetic-acid production, and phytoremediation [3] and could protect plants from flood-induced damage [4]. Serratia fonticola AU-AP2C, a Gramnegative motile rod, was isolated from the rhizosphere of pea roots and confers traits similar to PGPR AU-AP2C expresses phosphate solubilization and ammonia production, which are helpful in providing free phosphate and nitrogen to the plants, respectively.
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