Draft genome assemblies for tree pathogens Phytophthora pseudosyringae and Phytophthora boehmeriae
Abstract
Species of Phytophthora, plant pathogenic eukaryotic microbes, can cause disease on many tree species. Genome sequencing of species from this genus has helped to determine components of their pathogenicity arsenal. Here, we sequenced genomes for two widely distributed species, Phytophthora pseudosyringae and Phytophthora boehmeriae, yielding genome assemblies of 49 and 40 Mb, respectively. We identified more than 270 candidate disease promoting RXLR effector coding genes for each species, and hundreds of genes encoding candidate plant cell wall degrading carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes). These data boost genome sequence representation across the Phytophthora genus, and form resources for further study of Phytophthora pathogenesis.
Citation
Thorpe , P , Vetukuri , R R , Hedley , P E , Morris , J , Whisson , M A , Welsh , L R J & Whisson , S C 2021 , ' Draft genome assemblies for tree pathogens Phytophthora pseudosyringae and Phytophthora boehmeriae ' , G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics , vol. 11 , no. 11 , jkab282 . https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab282
Publication
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2160-1836Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Genetics Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Funding: S.C.W., L.R.J.W., P.H., and J.M. were supported by funding from the Scottish Government Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (RESAS). P.T. and bioinformatics and computational biology analyses were supported by the University of St Andrews Bioinformatics Unit (AMD3BIOINF), funded by Wellcome Trust ISSF award 105621/Z/14/Z. R.R.V. was funded by the Swedish Research Council Formas (grant 2019-01316) and Helge Ax:son Johnsons foundation.Collections
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