Chromosome-Level Assemblies for the Pine Pitch Canker Pathogen <i>Fusarium circinatum</i>.

ABSTRACT: The pine pitch canker pathogen, Fusarium circinatum, is globally regarded as one of the most important threats to commercial pine-based forestry. Although genome sequences of this fungus are available, these remain highly fragmented or structurally ill-defined. Our overall goal was to provide high-quality assemblies for two notable strains of F. circinatum, and to characterize these in terms of coding content, repetitiveness and the position of telomeres and centromeres. For this purpose, we used Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION long-read sequences, as well as Illumina short sequence reads. By leveraging the genomic synteny inherent to F. circinatum and its close relatives, these sequence reads were assembled to chromosome level, where contiguous sequences mostly sp

SUBMITTER: De Vos L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10819268 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature