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Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology, Plant Sciences, fungal pathogen, grass plants, genome, host specific, long read sequencing, Myriosclerotinia sulcatula, proteomics, Sclerotinia, ANNOTATION, SEQUENCE, Ascomycota, Carex Plant, Chromosomes, Fungal, Genome, Fungal, Plant Diseases, 0604 Genetics, 0605 Microbiology, 0607 Plant Biology, Plant Biology & Botany, 3105 Genetics, 3107 Microbiology, 3108 Plant biology

Abstract:

The fungus Myriosclerotinia sulcatula is a close relative of the notorious polyphagous plant pathogens Botrytis cinerea and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum but exhibits a host range restricted to plants from the Carex genus (Cyperaceae family). To date, there are no genomic resources available for fungi in the Myriosclerotinia genus. Here, we present a chromosome-scale reference genome assembly for M. sulcatula. The assembly contains 24 contigs with a total length of 43.53 Mbp, with scaffold N50 of 2,649.7 kbp and N90 of 1,133.1 kbp. BRAKER-predicted gene models were manually curated using WebApollo, resulting in 11,275 protein-coding genes that we functionally annotated. We provide a high-quality reference genome assembly and annotation for M. sulcatula as a resource for studying evolution and pathogenicity in fungi from the Sclerotiniaceae family.