Abstract
ABSTRACTDraft genomes of the fungal species Ambrosiella cleistominuta, Cercospora brassicicola, C. citrullina, Physcia stellaris, and Teratosphaeria pseudoeucalypti are presented. Physcia stellaris is an important lichen forming fungus and Ambrosiella cleistominuta is an ambrosia beetle symbiont. Cercospora brassicicola and C. citrullina are agriculturally relevant plant pathogens that cause leaf-spots in brassicaceous vegetables and cucurbits respectively. Teratosphaeria pseudoeucalypti causes severe leaf blight and defoliation of Eucalyptus trees. These genomes provide a valuable resource for understanding the molecular processes in these economically important fungi.
Highlights
Draft genomes of the fungal species Ambrosiella cleistominuta, Cercospora brassicicola, C. citrullina, Physcia stellaris, and Teratosphaeria pseudoeucalypti are presented
Materials and methods Ambrosiella cleistominuta isolate CBS 141682 was obtained from the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute in Utrecht, The Netherlands and grown on 2% malt extract agar (MEA: 2% w/v, Biolab, South Africa) at 25 °C
Combining a mate-pair library with the short-insert Illumina dataset during sequencing of the A. xylebori genome (Vanderpool et al 2017) likely lowered fragmentation of the draft assembly, improving contiguity
Summary
Draft genomes of the fungal species Ambrosiella cleistominuta, Cercospora brassicicola, C. citrullina, Physcia stellaris, and Teratosphaeria pseudoeucalypti are presented. Physcia stellaris is an important lichen forming fungus and Ambrosiella cleistominuta is an ambrosia beetle symbiont. Teratosphaeria pseudoeucalypti causes severe leaf blight and defoliation of Eucalyptus trees. These genomes provide a valuable resource for understanding the molecular processes in these economically important fungi. Wilken et al IMA Fungus (2020) 11:19 infested stem segments of Cornus florida (Mayers et al 2017). This was a surprising finding as ambrosia fungi are generally considered to be strictly asexual (Farrell et al 2001; Harrington 2005). Genome-based comparative studies have already provided a better understanding of the biology for many Ceratocystidaceae species (van der Nest et al 2015; Simpson et al 2018; Sayari et al 2019; van der Nest et al 2019), and the availability of another genome for this family will strengthen such studies in future
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