Magnaporthe oryzae Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Magnaporthe oryzae 70-15

Magnaporthe grisea, also known as rice blast fungus, rice rotten neck, rice seedling blight, blast of rice, oval leaf spot of graminea, pitting disease, ryegrass blast, Johnson spot, neck blast, wheat blast and Imochi (稲熱), is a plant-pathogenic fungus and model organism that causes a serious disease affecting rice. It is now known that M.  grisea consists of a cryptic species complex containing at least two biological species that have clear genetic differences and do not interbreed. Complex members isolated from Digitaria have been more narrowly defined as M. grisea. The remaining members of the complex isolated from rice and a variety of other hosts have been renamed Magnaporthe oryzae, within the same M. grisea complex. Confusion on which of these two names to use for the rice blast pathogen remains, as both are now used by different authors.

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"Magnaporthe comparative Sequencing Project
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Annotation

The genome sequence, assembly and protein coding genes annotation of the Magnaporthe oryzae (strain 70-15) genome have been generated by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard under the Magnaporthe comparative database 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. Identification and analysis of in planta expressed genes of Magnaporthe oryzae.
   Kim S, Park J, Park SY, Mitchell TK, Lee YH. 2010. BMC Genomics. 11:104.

Other Data

'Expressed Sequence Tags' (ESTs) from dbEST are aligned to the genome using Exonerate.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.