De novo transcriptome sequencing and analysis for Venturia inaequalis, the devastating apple scab pathogen.

ABSTRACT: Venturia inaequalis is the causal agent of apple scab, one of the most devastating diseases of apple. Due to several distinct features, it has emerged as a model fungal pathogen to study various aspects of hemibiotrophic plant pathogen interactions. The present study reports de novo assembling, annotation and characterization of the transcriptome of V. inaequalis. Venturia transcripts expressed during its growth on laboratory medium and that expressed during its biotrophic stage of infection on apple were sequenced using Illumina RNAseq technology. A total of 94,350,055 reads (50 bp read length) specific to Venturia were obtained after filtering. The reads were assembled into 62,061 contigs representing 24,571 unique genes. GO analysis suggested prevalence of genes associated with biologic

SUBMITTER: Thakur K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3547962 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature