IMA Fungus 6(1): 233-248, doi: 10.5598/imafungus.2015.06.01.15
Draft genome sequences of Chrysoporthe austroafricana, Diplodia scrobiculata, Fusarium nygamai, Leptographium lundbergii, Limonomyces culmigenus, Stagonosporopsis tanaceti, and Thielaviopsis punctulata
expand article infoBrenda D. Wingfield‡, Peter K. Ades§, Fatima A. Al-Naemi|, Lisa A. Beirn, Wubetu Bihon‡, Jo Anne Crouch#, Z. Wilhelm De Beer¤, Lieschen De Vos«, Tuan A. Duong‡, Christopher J. Fields», Gerda Fourie¤, Aquillah M. Kanzi‡, Martha Malapi-Wight˄, Sarah J. Pethybridge˅, Osman Radwan¦, Gloria Rendon», Bernard Slippersˀ, Quentin C. Santana‡, Emma T. Steenkampˁ, Paul W. Taylor₵, Niloofar Vaghefi˅, Nicolaas A. Van Der Merwe‡, Daniel Veltri˄, Michael J. Wingfield‡
‡ University of Pretoria, Department of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Pretoria, South Africa§ The University of Melbourne, Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, Victoria, Australia| Qatar University, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Doha, Qatar¶ Rutgers University, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, New Brunswick# USDA-ARS, Mycology & Nematology Genetic Diversity & Biology Laboratory, 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 Illinois, High Performance Biological Computing Group, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center/W.M. Keck Center, Urbana-Champaign˄ Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Beltsville˅ Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology Section, Geneva¦ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciencesˀ Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Pretoria, South Africaˁ University of Pretoria, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, Pretoria, South Africa₵ The University of Melbourne, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, Victoria, Australia
© Brenda Wingfield, Peter Ades, Fatima Al-Naemi, Lisa Beirn, Wubetu Bihon, Jo Crouch, Z. Wilhelm De Beer, Lieschen De Vos, Tuan Duong, Christopher Fields, Gerda Fourie, Aquillah Kanzi, Martha Malapi-Wight, Sarah Pethybridge, Osman Radwan, Gloria Rendon, Bernard Slippers, Quentin Santana, Emma Steenkamp, Paul Taylor, Niloofar Vaghefi, Nicolaas Van Der Merwe, Daniel Veltri, Michael Wingfield.
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Citation: Wingfield BD, Ades PK, Al-Naemi FA, Beirn LA, Bihon W, Crouch J, Wilhelm De Beer Z, De Vos L, Duong TA, Fields CJ, Fourie G, Kanzi AM, Malapi-Wight M, Pethybridge SJ, Radwan O, Rendon G, Slippers B, Santana QC, Steenkamp ET, Taylor PW, Vaghefi N, Van Der Merwe NA, Veltri D, Wingfield MJ (2015) Draft genome sequences of Chrysoporthe austroafricana, Diplodia scrobiculata, Fusarium nygamai, Leptographium lundbergii, Limonomyces culmigenus, Stagonosporopsis tanaceti, and Thielaviopsis punctulata. IMA Fungus 6(1): 233-248. https://doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2015.06.01.15
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Abstract
The genomes of Chrysoporthe austroafricana, Diplodia scrobiculata, Fusarium nygami, Leptographium lundbergii, Limonomyces culmigenus, Stagonosporopsis tanaceti, and Thielaviopsis punctulata are presented in this genome announcement. These seven genomes are from endophytes, plant pathogens and economically important fungal species. The genome sizes range from 26.6 Mb in the case of Leptographium lundbergii to 44 Mb for Chrysoporthe austroafricana. The availability of these genome data will provide opportunities to resolve longstanding questions regarding the taxonomy of species in these genera, and may contribute to our understanding of the lifestyles through comparative studies with closely related organisms.
Keywords
basal stalk and root rot, black scorch disease, blue stain, canker pathogen, pink patch disease, ray blight