# First Complete Genome Sequences of Xanthomonas citri pv. vignicola Strains CFBP7111, CFBP7112, and CFBP7113 Obtained Using Long-Read Technology

Mylène Ruh, Martial Briand, Sophie Bonneau, Marie-Agnès Jacques, Nicolas

Chen

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Mylène Ruh, Martial Briand, Sophie Bonneau, Marie-Agnès Jacques, Nicolas Chen. First Complete Genome Sequences of Xanthomonas citri pv. vignicola Strains CFBP7111, CFBP7112, and CFBP7113 Obtained Using Long-Read Technology. Genome Announcements, 2017, 5 (36), pp.e00813-17. 10.1128/genomeA.00813-17. hal-03314799

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# First Complete Genome Sequences of *Xanthomonas citri* pv. vignicola Strains CFBP7111, CFBP7112, and CFBP7113 Obtained Using Long-Read Technology

Mylène Ruh, Martial Briand, Sophie Bonneau, Marie-Agnès Jacques, Nicolas W. G. Chen

IRHS, INRA, Agrocampus Ouest, Université d'Angers, SFR4207 QUASAV, Beaucouzé, France

**ABSTRACT** *Xanthomonas citri* pv. vignicola strains cause bacterial blight of the legume crop cowpea. We report whole-genome sequences of three *X. citri* pv. vignicola strains obtained using PacBio single-molecule real-time sequencing. Such genomic data provide new information on pathogenicity factors, such as transcription activator-like effectors.

Cowpea (*Vigna unguiculata*) is a legume crop grown in semiarid tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, America, and Asia (1). It is used as staple food in different forms (grain, green pods, roots, or leaves) and as animal feed (2). Cowpea bacterial blight (CoBB) is a major disease of cowpea that severely reduces crop yields (3) and is present wherever cowpea is grown (4). The causal agent of CoBB is *Xanthomonas citri* pv. vignicola (formely *X. Axonopodis* pv. vignicola) (5). *X. Citri* pv. vignicola mainly produces symptoms on leaves, starting as tiny water-soaked spots that evolve into large necrotic areas surrounded by a yellow halo. This pathogen can also cause stem canker and water-soaking of pods, providing the opportunity for the bacteria to gain access to seeds (6). CoBB is seed-borne and can also be transmitted by aerosols and insects (7). Moreover, *X. citri* pv. vignicola is able to survive in infected plant debris, seeds, and soil, which constitute different inoculum sources (8, 9). Some genotypes of cowpea have been selected for resistance to CoBB (10); however, no information on the molecular basis for this resistance is available to date.

We sequenced three strains of *X. citri* pv. vignicola using PacBio single-molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing (11). Genomic DNA was extracted using the Wizard genomic DNA purification kit (Promega) according to the manufacturer's recommendations. Whole genomes were sequenced using the PacBio RSII SMRT technology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, NY). One SMRT cell was used per strain to achieve ~100× coverage. De novo assembly was performed using Canu version 1.5 (12), circularization of the contigs was done using Circlator version 1.5.1 (13), and polishing was done using the Quiver algorithm (14). Annotation was performed with the NCBI Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (15).

Each *X. citri* pv. vignicola genome comprised one chromosome plus zero to three circularized plasmids per strain. The genome of strain CFBP7111 comprised three plasmids, for a total assembly size of 5,710,499 bp, with a G+C content of 64.5% and a total of 5,095 predicted coding sequences (CDS). The genome of strain CFBP7112 comprised two plasmids, for a total assembly size of 5,155,996 bp, with a G+C content of 64.7% and a total of 4,460 predicted CDS. The genome of strain CFBP7113 comprised no plasmids, for a total assembly size of 5,105,205 bp, with a G+C content of 64.7% and a total of 4,446 predicted CDS. Interestingly, the content and localization of genes encoding transcription activator-like type III effectors (tal) differed among the three

Received 11 July 2017
Accepted 18 July 2017
Published 7 September 2017

**Citation** Ruh M, Briand M, Bonneau S, Jacques M-A, Chen NWG. 2017. First complete genome sequences of *Xanthomonas citri* pv. vignicola strains CFBP7111, CFBP7112, and CFBP7113 obtained using long-read technology. Genome Announc 5:e00813-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/ genomeA.00813-17.

Copyright © 2017 Ruh et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Address correspondence to Nicolas W. G. Chen, nicolas.chen@agrocampus-ouest.fr.
genomes. Strain CFBP7111 had no tal gene, while strain CFBP7112 contained seven tal genes located on plasmids, and strain CFBP7113 bore one tal gene located on the chromosome. This diversity may reflect different modes of adaptation of these strains to cowpea.

**Accession number(s).** The three whole-genome sequences have been deposited at GenBank under accession numbers CP022263 to CP022266 for strain CFBP7111, CP022267 to CP022269 for strain CFBP7112, and CP022270 for strain CFBP7113.

## ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was supported by grants from the French National Research Agency (CROpTAL project, grant number ANR-14-CE19-0002-04) and Angers-Loire Metropole, France (X-HOT project).

We thank Laurent D. Noël, Boris Szurek, Lionel Gagnevin, and Ralf Koebnik for recurrent scientific exchanges on the project CROpTAL led by Laurent D. Noël.

PacBio sequencing was performed at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (NY, USA) under the supervision of Robert Sebra and preliminary quality control of DNA was performed at the ANAN platform from the SFR 4207 QUASAV (Angers, France).

We also thank the CIRM-CFBP (Angers, France) for strain preservation and supply.

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