BioSample

The gram negative pseudomonad Pseudomonas citronellolis P3B5 was isolated from ready-to-eat basil (Ocimum basilicum) phyllosphere material, i.e. the surface of aboveground plant organs. P. citronellolis has been the subject of many studies including the investigating long-chain alkane degradation, terpene degradation and other biochemical processes. The plant leaf surface is covered by a cuticle that is impregnated with waxes constituted of long-chain aliphatic compounds, and basil is well known to contain high amounts or terpenoid substances hinting to a potential nutrient niche that might be exploited by P. citronellolis on plant leaves. Furthermore, the isolated strain exhibited many antibiotic resistances, including clinically relevant ones, we therefore investigated in how far those resistances are harbored on mobile genetic elements and the potential of the strain to serve as sources of antibiotic resistance genes on ready-to-eat herbs. To our knowledge, this is the first publically available Pseudomonas citronellolis genome.