Draft Genome Sequence of the Mycoparasitic Oomycete Pythium periplocum Strain CBS 532.74

Sandeep K Kushwaha; Ramesh R Vetukuri; Laura J Grenville-Briggs

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00057-17

Draft Genome Sequence of the Mycoparasitic Oomycete Pythium periplocum Strain CBS 532.74

Genome Announc. 2017 Mar 23;5(12):e00057-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00057-17.

Authors

Sandeep K Kushwaha^{1

2}, Ramesh R Vetukuri³, Laura J Grenville-Briggs⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden.
² National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS), Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
³ Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden ramesh.vetukuri@slu.se.
⁴ Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden.

Abstract

The oomycete Pythium periplocum is an aggressive mycoparasite of a number of plant pathogenic fungi and oomycetes and therefore has potential as a biological control agent. Here, we report the first draft genome sequence of P. periplocum, which comprises 35.89 Mb. It contains 1,043 scaffolds and 14,399 predicted protein-coding genes.