Draft Genome Sequences of One Aspergillus parasiticus Isolate and Nine Aspergillus flavus Isolates with Varying Stress Tolerance and Aflatoxin Production

Jake C Fountain; Josh P Clevenger; Brian Nadon; Hui Wang; Hamed K Abbas; Robert C Kemerait; Brian T Scully; Justin N Vaughn; Baozhu Guo

doi:10.1128/MRA.00478-20

Draft Genome Sequences of One Aspergillus parasiticus Isolate and Nine Aspergillus flavus Isolates with Varying Stress Tolerance and Aflatoxin Production

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Sep 10;9(37):e00478-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00478-20.

Authors

Jake C Fountain^#^{1

2

3}, Josh P Clevenger^#⁴, Brian Nadon^#⁵, Hui Wang^{1

2}, Hamed K Abbas⁶, Robert C Kemerait¹, Brian T Scully⁷, Justin N Vaughn⁵, Baozhu Guo⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Tifton, Georgia, USA.
² USDA Agricultural Research Service, Crop Protection and Management Research Unit, Tifton, Georgia, USA.
³ Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology, and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, USA.
⁴ HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
⁵ USDA Agricultural Research Service, Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Unit, Stoneville, Mississippi, USA.
⁶ USDA Agricultural Research Service, Biological Control of Pests Research Unit, Stoneville, Mississippi, USA.
⁷ USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Horticultural Research Laboratory, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA.
⁸ USDA Agricultural Research Service, Crop Protection and Management Research Unit, Tifton, Georgia, USA baozhu.guo@usda.gov.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus produce carcinogenic aflatoxins during crop infection, with extensive variations in production among isolates, ranging from atoxigenic to highly toxigenic. Here, we report draft genome sequences of one A. parasiticus isolate and nine A. flavus isolates from field environments for use in comparative, functional, and phylogenetic studies.