Puccinia triticina - GCA_000151525.2 (GCA000151525v2)

Puccinia triticina - GCA_000151525.2 Assembly and Gene Annotation

The inclusion of the Puccinia triticina genome in Ensembl Genomes has been funded by the award of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to EBI, the Broad Institute, and the USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory.

About Puccinia triticina

Puccinia triticina causes 'wheat leaf rust', a fungal disease that infects wheat. It is the most common wheat disease and ocurrs in most wheat growing regions. The fungus is an obligate parasite producing infectious urediniospores that can infect plants hundreds of kilometers away when carried by the wind.

Picture credit: James Kolmer

Assembly

The Puccinia triticina (race 1, isolate 1-1) genome was generated and assembled by Broad Institute of MIT and released in July 2010 consisting of a 16X whole-genome shotgun assembly with a size of 162.95 Mb.

Annotation

The annotation has been imported from VEuPathDB.

References

  1. Gene discovery in EST sequences from the wheat leaf rust fungus Puccinia triticina sexual spores, asexual spores and haustoria, compared to other rust and corn smut fungi.
    Xu J, Linning R, Fellers J, Dickinson M, Zhu W, Antonov I, Joly DL, Donaldson ME, Eilam T, Anikster Y et al. 2011. BMC Genomics. 12:161.

Other data

Statistics

Summary

AssemblyGCA000151525v2, INSDC Assembly GCA_000151525.2,
Database version114.2
Golden Path Length135,343,689
Genebuild byVEuPathDB FungiDB
Genebuild methodImport
Data sourceGenBank

Gene counts

Coding genes14,878
Non coding genes683
Small non coding genes683
Pseudogenes131
Gene transcripts16,499