Spiroplasma citri strain: C5 Genome sequencing and assembly

Spiroplasma citri is a bacterium that causes stubborn disease of citrus and carrot purple leaf. S. citri is transmitted by leafhoppers in a circulative and persistent manner. Due to limited sequence data on S. citri, the bacterium was isolated from carrot. DNA from S. citri C5 was extracted from a culture in LD8 and subjected to Nanopore sequencing. This genome extends the sequence database of S. citri and allow for comparative genomics analyses with previously sequenced strains.