Genome sequence of the plant-pathogenic bacterium Dickeya dadantii 3937.
Glasner J.D., Yang C.H., Reverchon S., Hugouvieux-Cotte-Pattat N., Condemine G., Bohin J.P., Van Gijsegem F., Yang S., Franza T., Expert D., Plunkett G. III, San Francisco M.J., Charkowski A.O., Py B., Bell K., Rauscher L., Rodriguez-Palenzuela P., Toussaint A., Holeva M.C., He S.Y., Douet V., Boccara M., Blanco C., Toth I., Anderson B.D., Biehl B.S., Mau B., Flynn S.M., Barras F., Lindeberg M., Birch P.R., Tsuyumu S., Shi X., Hibbing M., Yap M.N., Carpentier M., Dassa E., Umehara M., Kim J.F., Rusch M., Soni P., Mayhew G.F., Fouts D.E., Gill S.R., Blattner F.R., Keen N.T., Perna N.T.
Dickeya dadantii is a plant-pathogenic enterobacterium responsible for the soft rot disease of many plants of economic importance. We present here the sequence of strain 3937, a strain widely used as a model system for research on the molecular biology and pathogenicity of this group of bacteria.