Decoding Pecan's Fungal Foe: A Genomic Insight into <i>Colletotrichum plurivorum</i> Isolate W-6.

ABSTRACT: Pecan (Carya illinoinensis) is a world-renowned nut crop that is highly favored by consumers for its high content of healthy nutrients. For a long time, anthracnose has severely threatened the yield and quality of pecan, causing significant economic losses to the global pecan industry. Here, we report the 54.57-Mb gapless chromosome-level assembly of the pathogenic ascomycetes Colletotrichum plurivorum isolate W-6 from pecan plantations in Southeast China. Six of 12 chromosomes contain, at least, telomeric repeats (CCCTAA)n or (TTAGGG)n at one end. A total of 14,343 protein-coding genes were predicted. Pathogenicity- and virulence-related annotations revealed 137 to 4558 genes associated with the TCDB, PHI, Cyt_P450, DFVF, effector, and secretome databases, respectively. A co

SUBMITTER: Deng K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11943440 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature