Rhizopus microsporus str. ATCC 11559 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Rhizopus microsporus str. ATCC 11559

Rhizopus microsporus is a fungal plant pathogen infecting maize, sunflower, and rice.

Used in the preparation of traditional soy fermentation such as tempeh and sufu (see Rhizopus oligosporus).

It can also cause a nosocomial infection and necrosis to the infected area, particularly prevalent in pre-term infants. This fungus contains the bacterial endosymbiont Burkholderia rhizoxinica that produces the antitumor drug rhizoxin.

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Assembly

The assembly presented is the Rhimi_ATCC11559_1 assembly submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_002083735.1.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_002083735.1, with additional non-coding genes derived from Rfam. For more details, please visit INSDC annotation import.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.