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

About Pyrenophora tritici-repentis

Pyrenophora triciti-repentis is the causal agent of 'tan spot', a major disease in most of common wheat varieties. It can be identified by looking at the leaves for dark oval shaped necrotic tissue with a yellow border.

• Birren B., Lander E., Galagan J., Nusbaum C., Devon K., Ma L.-J., Jaffe D., Butler J., Alvarez P., Gnerre S., Grabherr M., Kleber M., Mauceli E., Brockman W., MacCallum I.A., Young S., LaButti K., DeCaprio D., Crawford M., Koehrsen M., Engels R., Montgomery P., Pearson M., Howarth C., Larson L., White J., Yandava C., Kodira C., Zeng Q., O'Leary S., Alvarado L., Ciuffetti L., Pandelova I., Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

Picture credits: ACNFP(Australian Centre for Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens), Curtin University, Western Australia. Taken by Kasia Clarke and Caroline Moffat.

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.