Liberibacter crescens BT-1, a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterial isolate, was previously re-covered from mountain papaya to gain insight on Huanglongbing (HLB) and Zebra Chip (ZC) diseases. The genome of BT-1 was sequenced at the Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnolo-gy Research (ICBR) at the University of Florida. A finished assembly and annotation yielded one chromosome with a length of 1,504,659 bp and a G+C content of 35.4%. Comparison to other species in the Liberibacter genus, L. crescens has many more genes in thiamine and es-sential amino acid biosynthesis. This likely explains why L. crescens BT-1 is culturable while the known Liberibacter strains have not yet been cultured. Similar to Candidatus L. asiaticus psy62, the L. crescens BT-1 genome contains two prophage regions.
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Leonard, M. T., Fagen, J. R., Davis-Richardson, A. G., Davis, M. J., & Triplett, E. W. (2012). Complete genome sequence of Liberibacter crescens BT-1. Standards in Genomic Sciences, 7(2), 271–283. https://doi.org/10.4056/sigs.3326772
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