Genome Sequence of the Cacao Pathogen Moniliophthora roreri Belonging to the Invasive A1B1 Mating Type: A Resource for Genomic Efforts in Cacao Pathology

Jorge R. Díaz-Valderrama; Karol B. Rubio-Rojas; Nadia B. Fernández; Teeratas Kijpornyongpan; Wilbert Phillips-Mora; Clifford F. Weil; Michael Gribskov; M. Catherine Aime

doi:10.1094/PHYTOFR-11-22-0128-A

PhytoFrontiers (Nov 2023)

Genome Sequence of the Cacao Pathogen Moniliophthora roreri Belonging to the Invasive A1B1 Mating Type: A Resource for Genomic Efforts in Cacao Pathology

Jorge R. Díaz-Valderrama,
Karol B. Rubio-Rojas,
Nadia B. Fernández,
Teeratas Kijpornyongpan,
Wilbert Phillips-Mora,
Clifford F. Weil,
Michael Gribskov,
M. Catherine Aime

Affiliations

Jorge R. Díaz-Valderrama: Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A.
Karol B. Rubio-Rojas: Instituto de Investigación para el Desarrollo Sustentable de Ceja de Selva, Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza de Amazonas, Chachapoyas, Amazonas, Peru
Nadia B. Fernández: Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.
Teeratas Kijpornyongpan: Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A.
Wilbert Phillips-Mora: Cacao Breeding Program, CATIE 7170, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Clifford F. Weil: Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A.
Michael Gribskov: Department of Biological and Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A.
M. Catherine Aime: Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTOFR-11-22-0128-A
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 3
pp. 719 – 722

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We sequenced the genome of the cacao pathogen Moniliophthora roreri MCA2952, which harbors mating type A1B1 and is the first instance of the fungus identified in Mexico. This draft genome consists of 59.68 Mb on 254 scaffolds; it is 95.8% complete based on the analysis of Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (BUSCO v.2 with the Basidiomycota odb9 database), and it is by far the most contiguous genome generated for the genus Moniliophthora. [Figure: see text] Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.

Published in PhytoFrontiers

ISSN: 2690-5442 (Online)
Publisher: The American Phytopathological Society
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Agriculture: Plant culture; Science: Botany
Website: https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/journal/phytofr

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