IMA Fungus 5(2): 472-486, doi: 10.5598/imafungus.2014.05.02.11
Draft genomes of Amanita jacksonii, Ceratocystis albifundus, Fusarium circinatum, Huntiella omanensis, Leptographium procerum, Rutstroemia sydowiana, and Sclerotinia echinophila
Brenda D. Wingfield‡, Lisa A. Beirn§, Jo Anne Crouch|, Jill E. Demers¶, Z. Wilhelm De Beer#, Lieschen De Vos¤, Thomas R. Gordon«, Jean-Marc Moncalvo», Kershney Naidoo‡, Santiago Sanchez-Ramirez», Danielle Roodt‡, Quentin C. Santana‡, Stephanie L. Slinski‡, Matt Stata», Stephen J. Taerum‡, P. Markus Wilken˄, Andrea M. Wilson‡, Michael J. Wingfield‡, Brenda D. Wingfield˅‡ University of Pretoria, Department of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Pretoria, South Africa§ Rutgers University, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, New Brunswick| USDA-ARS, Mycology & Nematology Genetic Diversity & Biology Laboratory, Beltsville¶ Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville# University of Pretoria, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Pretoria, South Africa¤ University of Pretoria, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Hatfield, South Africa« University of California, Department of Plant Pathology, Davis» University of Toronto, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Toronto, Canada˄ University of Pretoria, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Pretoria, South Africa˅ University of Pretoria, Department of Genetics and Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Pretoria, South Africa
© Brenda Wingfield, Lisa Beirn, Jo Crouch, Jill Demers, Z. Wilhelm De Beer, Lieschen De Vos, Thomas Gordon, Jean-Marc Moncalvo, Kershney Naidoo, Santiago Sanchez-Ramirez, Danielle Roodt, Quentin Santana, Stephanie Slinski, Matt Stata, Stephen Taerum, P. Wilken, Andrea Wilson, Michael Wingfield, Brenda Wingfield. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes, provided that the article is not altered or modified and the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Wingfield BD, Beirn LA, Crouch J, Demers JE, Wilhelm De Beer Z, De Vos L, Gordon TR, Moncalvo J-M, Naidoo K, Sanchez-Ramirez S, Roodt D, Santana QC, Slinski SL, Stata M, Taerum SJ, Wilken PM, Wilson AM, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD (2014) Draft genomes of Amanita jacksonii, Ceratocystis albifundus, Fusarium circinatum, Huntiella omanensis, Leptographium procerum, Rutstroemia sydowiana, and Sclerotinia echinophila. IMA Fungus 5(2): 472-486. https://doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2014.05.02.11 |  |
Abstract
The genomes of fungi provide an important resource to resolve issues pertaining to their taxonomy, biology, and evolution. The genomes of Amanita jacksonii, Ceratocystis albifundus, a Fusarium circinatum variant, Huntiella omanensis, Leptographium procerum, Sclerotinia echinophila, and Rutstroemia sydowiana are presented in this genome announcement. These seven genomes are from a number of fungal pathogens and economically important species. The genome sizes range from 27 Mb in the case of Ceratocystis albifundus to 51.9 Mb for Rutstroemia sydowiana. The latter also encodes for a predicted 17 350 genes, more than double that of Ceratocystis albifundus. These genomes will add to the growing body of knowledge of these fungi and provide a value resource to researchers studying these fungi.
Keywords
Dispensable chromosome