Verticillium dahliae Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Verticillium dahliae

Verticillium dahliae is a fungal plant pathogen. It causes verticillium wilt in many plant species, causing leaves to curl and discolor. It may cause death in some plants. Over 400 plant species are affected by Verticillium complex.

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Annotation

The genome sequence, assembly and protein coding genes annotation of the Verticillium dahliae (strain VdLs.17) genome have been generated by the Broad Institute.

The set of non coding RNA genes comprises the genes that are part of the INSDC release and another independent set 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. Comparative genomics yields insights into niche adaptation of plant vascular wilt pathogens.
   Klosterman SJ, Subbarao KV, Kang S, Veronese P, Gold SE, Thomma BP, Chen Z, Henrissat B, Lee YH, Park J et al. 2011. PLoS Pathog.. 7:e1002137.

Picture credit: Infection by Verticillium dahliae on sunflower. Source: Howard F. Schwartz, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.