A Genome Resource of Setosphaeria turcica, Causal Agent of Northern Leaf Blight of Maize
PHYTOPATHOLOGY(2020)
Abstract
The heterothallic ascomycete Setosphaeria turcica (anamorph Exserohilum turcicum) causes northern corn leaf blight, which results in devastating yield losses and a reduction in feed value. Although genome sequences of two model strains of the pathogen are available (https://mycocosm.jgi.doe.gov/mycocosm/home), previous drafts were assembled using short read technologies, making evolutionary and genetic linkage inferences difficult. Here, race 23N of S. turcica strain Et28A was sequenced again using Illumina HiSeq and PacBio Sequel technologies, and assembled to approximately 43,480,261 bp on 30 scaffolds. In all, 13,183 proteincoding genes were predicted, 13,142 of them were well annotated. This S. turcica genome resource is important for understanding the genetics behind pathogen evolution and infection mechanisms.
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Key words
evolution,fungal pathogens,genome sequence,genomics,infection,microbe-genome sequencing,Setosphaeria turcica
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