Pseudocercospora fijiensis CIRAD86 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Pseudocercospora fijiensis CIRAD86 (GCA_000340215)

Black tsigatoka is a leaf-spot disease of banana plants caused by the ascomycete fungus Mycosphaerella fijiensis (Morelet). Also known as black leaf streak, it was discovered in 1963 and named for its similarities with the yellow sigatoka, which is caused by Mycosphaerella musicola (Mulder), which was itself named after the Sigatoka Valley in Fiji, where an outbreak of this disease reached epidemic proportions from 1912 to 1923.

According to new terminology, the Tsigatoka disease complex is a cluster of three closely related fungi---yellow sigatoka (Pseudocercospora musae), eumusae leaf spot (Ps. eumusae), and black sigatoka (Ps. fijiensis).

Plants with leaves damaged by the disease may have up to 50% lower yield of fruit, and control can take up to 50 sprays a year.

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Assembly

The assembly presented is the Mycfi2 assembly submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_000340215.1.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_000340215.1, with additional non-coding genes derived from Rfam. For more details, please visit INSDC annotation import.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.