Open AccessA Chromosome-Scale Genome Assembly Resource for Myriosclerotinia sulcatula Infecting Sedge Grass (Carex sp.)
Author(s) -
Stefan Kusch,
Heba M. M. Ibrahim,
Catherine Zanchetta,
Céline Lopez-Roques,
Cécile Donnadieu,
Sylvain Raffaele
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
molecular plant-microbe interactions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-7706
pISSN - 0894-0282
DOI - 10.1094/mpmi-03-20-0060-a
Subject(s) - biology , contig , genome , sequence assembly , sclerotinia sclerotiorum , whole genome sequencing , chromosome , genome size , genetics , genome project , carex , gene , botany , transcriptome , gene expression
The fungus Myriosclerotinia sulcatula is a close relative of the notorious polyphagous plant pathogens Botrytis cinerea and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum but exhibits a host range restricted to plants from the Carex genus (Cyperaceae family). To date, there are no genomic resources available for fungi in the Myriosclerotinia genus. Here, we present a chromosome-scale reference genome assembly for M. sulcatula. The assembly contains 24 contigs with a total length of 43.53 Mbp, with scaffold N 50 of 2,649.7 kbp and N 90 of 1,133.1 kbp. BRAKER-predicted gene models were manually curated using WebApollo, resulting in 11,275 protein-coding genes that we functionally annotated. We provide a high-quality reference genome assembly and annotation for M. sulcatula as a resource for studying evolution and pathogenicity in fungi from the Sclerotiniaceae family.