Bradyrhizobium elkanii USDA 61 genome sequencing. Bradyrhizobium elkanii USDA 61

Bradyrhizobium elkanii USDA 61 is a bacterium isolated from a nodule of soybean. This strain is able to nodulate having nitrogen fixation ability to a soybean cultivar genotype rj1rj1, while it has a feature of forming very few nodules to the genotype Rj4. Two B. japonicum strains have been already completed the genome analyses as soybean symbionts. Although some symbiosis properties of B. elkanii are quite different from ones of B. japonicum, it is difficult to currently examine the differences at the genomic level between them. Therefore we were launched completely sequencing of B. elkanii USDA61 genome.