A chromosome-scale genome assembly resource for Myriosclerotinia sulcatula infecting sedge grass (Carex sp.)
Authors/Creators
- 1. Unit of Plant Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Biology I, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 1, 52056 Aachen, Germany
- 2. Division of Plant Biotechnics, Department of Biosystems, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Willem de Croylan 42, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
- 3. INRAE, US 1426, GeT-PlaGe, Genotoul, Castanet-Tolosan, France (doi:10.15454/1.5572370921303193E12)
- 4. Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes (LIPM), INRA, CNRS, 24 Chemin de Borde Rouge - Auzeville, CS52627, F31326 Castanet Tolosan Cedex, France
Description
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 Carexgenus (Cyperaceae family). To date, there are no genomic resources available for fungi in the Myriosclerotiniagenus. 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 N50 of 2,649.7 kbp and N90 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.