A Draft Genome Resource for the Cacao Thread Blight-Causing Fungal Pathogen Marasmiellus scandens
Members of the Marasmiinaea suborder of basidiomycetous fungi cause thread blight disease (TBD) in cacao, Theobroma cacao, and are a threat to chocolate production worldwide. The most cited causal agent of TBD is Marasmiellus scandens; however, among recent TBD-causing Marasmiinaea isolations in Gha...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The American Phytopathological Society
2024-12-01
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| Series: | PhytoFrontiers |
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| Online Access: | https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PHYTOFR-06-24-0065-A |
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| Summary: | Members of the Marasmiinaea suborder of basidiomycetous fungi cause thread blight disease (TBD) in cacao, Theobroma cacao, and are a threat to chocolate production worldwide. The most cited causal agent of TBD is Marasmiellus scandens; however, among recent TBD-causing Marasmiinaea isolations in Ghana, only 8% were M. scandens. Nonetheless, owing to the emerging threat of TBD to cacao, generating a high-quality genome assembly of the pathogen M. scandens is of considerable importance. This announcement describes our assembly, annotation, and release of a draft nuclear genome for M. scandens strain GH-19 using a hybrid assembly approach combining long- and short-read sequencing data. [Figure: see text] Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. |
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| ISSN: | 2690-5442 |