Kolton, M., Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel, Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel, Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Rehovot, Israel
Green, S.J., DNA Services Facility, Research Resources Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Harel, Y.M., Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel
Sela, N., Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel
Elad, Y., Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel
Cytryn, E., Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Here we report the draft genome sequence of Flavobacterium sp. strain F52, isolated from the rhizosphere of bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L. cv. Maccabi). Flavobacterium spp. are ubiquitous in the rhizospheres of agricultural crops; however, little is known about their physiology. To our knowledge, this is the first published genome of a root-associated Flavobacterium strain. © 2012, American Society for Microbiology.