The Sanger Institute, funded by the USDA, has completed the sequence of the genome of Erwinia amylovora strain Ea273 in collaboration with Steven Beer of the Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, and Nicole Perna of the Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin.

Erwinia amylovorais an important bacterial plant pathogen, which is the causative agent of fire blight. As a member of the Enterobacteriaceae, it is related to Escherichia and Shigella, Salmonella and Yersinia.

The genome is 3,805,874 bp in size and has a G+C content of approximately 53.5%. There are also two plasmids, one of 71,487 bp and one of 28243 bp.

The completed sequence is available for searching on our Blast Server, or for download from our FTP site.

The shotgun database is still available; there are 88,557 reads, totalling 42.322 Mb, giving a theoretical coverage of 99.99 % of the genome.

A preliminary gene prediction of the chromosome in Artemis format is now available, together with the DNA sequence in fasta format.