IMA Genome-F 3: Draft genomes of Amanita jacksonii, Ceratocystis albifundus, Fusarium circinatum, Huntiella omanensis, Leptographium procerum, Rutstroemia sydowiana, and Sclerotinia echinophila

Magriet A van der Nest; Lisa A Beirn; Jo Anne Crouch; Jill E Demers; Z Wilhelm de Beer; Lieschen De Vos; Thomas R Gordon; Jean-Marc Moncalvo; Kershney Naidoo; Santiago Sanchez-Ramirez; Danielle Roodt; Quentin C Santana; Stephanie L Slinski; Matt Stata; Stephen J Taerum; P Markus Wilken; Andrea M Wilson; Michael J Wingfield; Brenda D Wingfield

doi:10.5598/imafungus.2014.05.02.11

IMA Genome-F 3: Draft genomes of Amanita jacksonii, Ceratocystis albifundus, Fusarium circinatum, Huntiella omanensis, Leptographium procerum, Rutstroemia sydowiana, and Sclerotinia echinophila

IMA Fungus. 2014 Dec;5(2):473-86. doi: 10.5598/imafungus.2014.05.02.11. Epub 2014 Dec 16.

Authors

Magriet A van der Nest¹, Lisa A Beirn², Jo Anne Crouch³, Jill E Demers³, Z Wilhelm de Beer⁴, Lieschen De Vos¹, Thomas R Gordon⁵, Jean-Marc Moncalvo⁶, Kershney Naidoo¹, Santiago Sanchez-Ramirez⁷, Danielle Roodt¹, Quentin C Santana¹, Stephanie L Slinski⁸, Matt Stata⁷, Stephen J Taerum¹, P Markus Wilken¹, Andrea M Wilson¹, Michael J Wingfield⁴, Brenda D Wingfield¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, P. Bag X20, Pretoria 0028, South Africa;
² Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, 59 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
³ Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, P. Bag X20, Pretoria 0028, South Africa.
⁵ Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
⁶ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2, Canada ; Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON M5S 2C6, Canada ; Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2, Canada.
⁷ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2, Canada.
⁸ Department of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, P. Bag X20, Pretoria 0028, South Africa; ; Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

Abstract

The genomes of fungi provide an important resource to resolve issues pertaining to their taxonomy, biology, and evolution. The genomes of Amanita jacksonii, Ceratocystis albifundus, a Fusarium circinatum variant, Huntiella omanensis, Leptographium procerum, Sclerotinia echinophila, and Rutstroemia sydowiana are presented in this genome announcement. These seven genomes are from a number of fungal pathogens and economically important species. The genome sizes range from 27 Mb in the case of Ceratocystis albifundus to 51.9 Mb for Rutstroemia sydowiana. The latter also encodes for a predicted 17 350 genes, more than double that of Ceratocystis albifundus. These genomes will add to the growing body of knowledge of these fungi and provide a value resource to researchers studying these fungi.

Keywords: Dispensable chromosome.