Nature Communications (Apr 2023)

Major proliferation of transposable elements shaped the genome of the soybean rust pathogen Phakopsora pachyrhizi

  • Yogesh K. Gupta,
  • Francismar C. Marcelino-Guimarães,
  • Cécile Lorrain,
  • Andrew Farmer,
  • Sajeet Haridas,
  • Everton Geraldo Capote Ferreira,
  • Valéria S. Lopes-Caitar,
  • Liliane Santana Oliveira,
  • Emmanuelle Morin,
  • Stephanie Widdison,
  • Connor Cameron,
  • Yoshihiro Inoue,
  • Kathrin Thor,
  • Kelly Robinson,
  • Elodie Drula,
  • Bernard Henrissat,
  • Kurt LaButti,
  • Aline Mara Rudsit Bini,
  • Eric Paget,
  • Vasanth Singan,
  • Christopher Daum,
  • Cécile Dorme,
  • Milan van Hoek,
  • Antoine Janssen,
  • Lucie Chandat,
  • Yannick Tarriotte,
  • Jake Richardson,
  • Bernardo do Vale Araújo Melo,
  • Alexander H. J. Wittenberg,
  • Harrie Schneiders,
  • Stephane Peyrard,
  • Larissa Goulart Zanardo,
  • Valéria Cristina Holtman,
  • Flavie Coulombier-Chauvel,
  • Tobias I. Link,
  • Dirk Balmer,
  • André N. Müller,
  • Sabine Kind,
  • Stefan Bohnert,
  • Louisa Wirtz,
  • Cindy Chen,
  • Mi Yan,
  • Vivian Ng,
  • Pierrick Gautier,
  • Maurício Conrado Meyer,
  • Ralf Thomas Voegele,
  • Qingli Liu,
  • Igor V. Grigoriev,
  • Uwe Conrath,
  • Sérgio H. Brommonschenkel,
  • Marco Loehrer,
  • Ulrich Schaffrath,
  • Catherine Sirven,
  • Gabriel Scalliet,
  • Sébastien Duplessis,
  • H. Peter van Esse

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37551-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Asian soybean rust caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi is an important plant pathogen, but an accurate genome assembly for this fungus has been lacking. This study sequenced three independent P. pachyrhizi isolates and generated reference quality assemblies and genome annotations, representing a critical step for further in-depth studies of this pathogen and the development of new methods of control.