Genomic and metabolic characterisation of spoilage-associated Pseudomonas species

Pseudomonas are common spoilage agents of aerobically stored fresh foods. Their ability to cause spoilage is species- and may be strain-specific. To improve our understanding of the meat and milk spoilage agents Pseudomonas fragi and Pseudomonas lundensis, we sequenced the genomes of 12 P. fragi and seven P. lundensis isolates. With the aim of understanding more about their inter- and intra-species genetic diversity, these genomes provided a dataset for genomic analyses.