First Report and Genome Resource of Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi, causal agent of Mummy Berry Disease of Black Huckleberry (Vaccinium membranaceum)

Abstract

Monilinia vacccinii-corymbosi (phylum Ascomycota, family Sclerotiniaceae) causes fruit disease 'mummy berry' on berry crops and responsible for yield losses and quality of fruits. We reported mummy berry disease of black huckleberry (Vaccinium membranaceum) first time in British Columbia, Canada. We have performed sequencing and genome assembly of M. vacccinii-corymbosi from infected fruits of huckleberry. The resulting genome was 33.8 Mbp in size and consisted of 2,437 scaffolds with an N50 of 33,816 bp. To our best knowledge, this is the first report of resource announcement of whole genome sequence of mummy berry pathogen (M. vacccinii-corymbosi) infecting black huckleberry. The genome resource will be valuable for future studies to understand the genomic structure of pathogen, and mechanisms associated with black huckleberry-M. vacccinii-corymbosi interactions.