Puccinia graminis Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici CRL 75-36-700-3

Stem rust, also known as cereal rust, black rust, red rust or red dust, is caused by the fungus Puccinia graminis, which causes significant disease in cereal crops. Crop species that are affected by the disease include bread wheat, durum wheat, barley and triticale. These diseases have affected cereal farming throughout history. The annual recurrence of stem rust of wheat in North Indian plains was discovered by K. C. Mehta. Since the 1950s, wheat strains bred to be resistant to stem rust have become available. Fungicides effective against stem rust are available as well.

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Annotation

The sequencing, assembly and annotation of protein coding genes from the Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (CRL 75-36-700-3) genome has been generated by the Broad Institute as part of their work on the Puccinia group of fungi (http://www.broadinstitute.org/annotation/genome/puccinia_group/Info.html). The genome has been sequenced to a coverage of 12x and was most recently updated in 2008. It consists of 393 scaffolds with a total size of 84 Mb. The current release includes the most recent gene set from Broad Institute that consists in 15,800 protein coding genes submitted to INSDC in 16/12/2011.

Non coding RNA genes have been annotated using tRNAScan-SE (Lowe, T.M. and Eddy, S.R. 1997), RFAM (Griffiths-Jones et al 2005), and RNAmmer (Lagesen K.,et al 2007); additional analysis tools have also been applied.

Variation

The variation data available in this site was generated by resequencing of the reference strain 7a (CRL 75-36-700-3), race SCCL, by the Broad Institute.

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