Pyrenophora tritici-repentis Pt-1C-BFP Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Pyrenophora tritici-repentis Pt-1C-BFP

Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (teleomorph) and Drechslera tritici-repentis (anamorph) is a necrotrophic plant pathogen of fungal origin, phylum Ascomycota. The pathogen causes a disease originally named yellow spot but now commonly called tan spot, yellow leaf spot, yellow leaf blotch or helminthosporiosis. At least eight races of the pathogen are known to occur based on their virulence on a wheat differential set.

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The Broad Institute sequenced the Pyrenophora tritici-repentis strain Pt-1C-BFP (Race 1) genome at 6.93X coverage using whole genome shotgun (WGS) sequencing. Race 1 is the most prevalent race found in both the US and throughout the world and most of the molecular genetics and applied research has been conducted on race 1 isolates. The first host-selective, protein toxin, Ptr ToxA, was characterized from this race as well. The current assembly (Assembly 1) consists of 703 nuclear genome contigs in 47 supercontigs, and 2 mitochondrial genome contigs in 1 supercontig. The genome assembly has been annotated using automated gene prediction tools.

The assembly and annotation here has been obtained via the records in INSDC (GCA_000149985.1).

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General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.