Mycosarcoma maydis Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Mycosarcoma maydis

Corn smut is a plant disease caused by the pathogenic fungus Mycosarcoma maydis, synonym Ustilago maydis. One of several cereal crop pathogens called smut, the fungus forms galls on all above-ground parts of corn species such as maize and teosinte. The infected corn is edible; in Mexico, it is considered a delicacy, called huitlacoche, often eaten as a filling in quesadillas and other tortilla-based dishes, as well as in soups.

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Annotation

The genome sequence, assembly and protein coding genes annotation of the Ustilago maydis (strain 521) genome have been generated by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard under the Ustilago maydis 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. Fungal dimorphism regulated gene expression in Ustilago maydis: II. Filament down-regulated genes.
   Garca-Pedrajas MD, Gold SE. 2004. Mol. Plant Pathol.. 5:295-307.
2. Gene discovery and transcript analyses in the corn smut pathogen Ustilago maydis: expressed sequence tag and genome sequence comparison.
   Ho EC, Cahill MJ, Saville BJ. 2007. BMC Genomics. 8:334.
3. Gene expression and EST analyses of Ustilago maydis germinating teliospores.
   Sacadura NT, Saville BJ. 2003. Fungal Genet. Biol.. 40:47-64.
4. Gene expression during Ustilago maydis diploid filamentous growth: EST library creation and analyses.
   Nugent KG, Choffe K, Saville BJ. 2004. Fungal Genet. Biol.. 41:349-360.
5. Insights from the genome of the biotrophic fungal plant pathogen Ustilago maydis.
   Kmper J, Kahmann R, Blker M, Ma LJ, Brefort T, Saville BJ, Banuett F, Kronstad JW, Gold SE, Mller O et al. 2006. Nature. 444:97-101.

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Other data

• EST sequences from Ho et al. and Nugent et al. were aligned to the genome with Exonerate [View data]

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.