Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Sclerotinia sclerotiorum 1980 UF-70

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a plant pathogenic fungus and can cause a disease called white mold if conditions are conducive. S. sclerotiorum can also be known as cottony rot, watery soft rot, stem rot, drop, crown rot and blossom blight. A key characteristic of this pathogen is its ability to produce black resting structures known as sclerotia and white fuzzy growths of mycelium on the plant it infects. These sclerotia give rise to a fruiting body in the spring that produces spores in a sac which is why fungi in this class are called sac fungi (Ascomycota). This pathogen can occur on many continents and has a wide host range of plants. When S. sclerotiorum is onset in the field by favorable environmental conditions, losses can be great and control measures should be considered.

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Annotation

The genome sequence, assembly and protein coding genes annotation of the Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (strain 1980) genome have been generated by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard under the Sclerotinia sclerotiorum sequencing project.

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.

References

1. Genomic analysis of the necrotrophic fungal pathogens Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea.
   Amselem J, Cuomo CA, van Kan JA, Viaud M, ..., Rollins JA, Lebrun MH, Dickman M. 2011. PLoS Genet.. 7:e1002230.

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General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.