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April 21, 2020  |  

Genome data of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense race 1 and tropical race 4 isolates using long-read sequencing.

Authors: Yun, Yingzi and Song, Aixia and Bao, Jiandong and Chen, Shasha and Lu, Songmao and Cheng, Chunzhen and Zheng, Wenhui and Wang, Zonghua and Zhang, Liangsheng

Fusarium wilt of banana is caused by the soil-borne fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc). We generated two chromosome-level assemblies of Foc race 1 and tropical race 4 strains using single-molecule real-time sequencing. The Foc1 and FocTR4 assemblies had 35 and 29 contigs with contig N50 lengths of 2.08 Mb and 4.28 Mb, respectively. These two new references genomes represent a greater than 100-fold improvement over the contig N50 statistics of the previous short read-based Foc assemblies. The two high-quality assemblies reported here will be a valuable resource for the comparative analysis of Foc races at the pathogenic levels.

Journal: Molecular plant-microbe interactions
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-03-19-0063-A
Year: 2019

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