Open AccessGenomic Sequence Resource of Kabatiella zeae, the Causative Pathogen of Corn Eyespot Disease
Author(s) -
Yafei Wang,
Jinai Yao,
Xinnian Xia,
Zhiqiang Li,
Shaoqun Zhou,
Wende Liu,
Hanxiang Wu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
molecular plant-microbe interactions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-7706
pISSN - 0894-0282
DOI - 10.1094/mpmi-04-21-0083-a
Subject(s) - biology , contig , genome , eyespot , sequence assembly , genetics , reference genome , whole genome sequencing , dna sequencing , gene , zea mays , computational biology , agronomy , gene expression , transcriptome
Kabatiella zeae is the causative pathogen of corn eyespot disease, which is an important leaf disease that damages corn (Zea mays L.) worldwide. In this study, we provided an annotated draft of the assembled genome of the K. zeae field strain KZ1 through PacBio and Illumina sequencing. The assembled KZ1 genome size is 23,602,820 bp, and its GC content is 50.71%. The completeness of the assembled genome is 97.6% in this study. The assembly obtained in this study has 94 contigs and the length of N 50 is 720,243 bp. This study is the first report of the K. zeae genome, which contributes to further research on the genetic variation and pathogenic mechanism of this important fungal pathogen. [Formula: see text] Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license .