Draft Genome Sequence of the Plant-Pathogenic Soil Fungus Rhizoctonia solani Anastomosis Group 3 Strain Rhs1AP

Marc A Cubeta; Elizabeth Thomas; Ralph A Dean; Suha Jabaji; Stephen M Neate; Stellos Tavantzis; Takeshi Toda; Rytas Vilgalys; Narayanaswamy Bharathan; Natalie Fedorova-Abrams; Suman B Pakala; Suchitra M Pakala; Nikhat Zafar; Vinita Joardar; Liliana Losada; William C Nierman

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01072-14

Draft Genome Sequence of the Plant-Pathogenic Soil Fungus Rhizoctonia solani Anastomosis Group 3 Strain Rhs1AP

Genome Announc. 2014 Oct 30;2(5):e01072-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01072-14.

Authors

Marc A Cubeta¹, Elizabeth Thomas², Ralph A Dean¹, Suha Jabaji³, Stephen M Neate⁴, Stellos Tavantzis⁵, Takeshi Toda⁶, Rytas Vilgalys⁷, Narayanaswamy Bharathan⁸, Natalie Fedorova-Abrams⁹, Suman B Pakala⁹, Suchitra M Pakala⁹, Nikhat Zafar⁹, Vinita Joardar⁹, Liliana Losada⁹, William C Nierman⁹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
² Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA ethomas@ncsu.edu.
³ Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.
⁴ Leslie Research Centre, Queensland, Australia.
⁵ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA.
⁶ Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan.
⁷ Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
⁸ Department of Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁹ J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

The soil fungus Rhizoctonia solani is a pathogen of agricultural crops. Here, we report on the 51,705,945 bp draft consensus genome sequence of R. solani strain Rhs1AP. A comprehensive understanding of the heterokaryotic genome complexity and organization of R. solani may provide insight into the plant disease ecology and adaptive behavior of the fungus.