Authors
Angela H Williams, Mamta Sharma, Louise F Thatcher, Sarwar Azam, James K Hane, Jana Sperschneider, Brendan N Kidd, Jonathan P Anderson, Raju Ghosh, Gagan Garg, Judith Lichtenzveig, H Corby Kistler, Terrance Shea, Sarah Young, Sally-Anne G Buck, Lars G Kamphuis, Rachit Saxena, Suresh Pande, Li-Jun Ma, Rajeev K Varshney, Karam B Singh
Publication date
2016/12
Journal
BMC genomics
Volume
17
Pages
1-24
Publisher
BioMed Central
Description
Background
Soil-borne fungi of the Fusarium oxysporum species complex cause devastating wilt disease on many crops including legumes that supply human dietary protein needs across many parts of the globe. We present and compare draft genome assemblies for three legume-infecting formae speciales (ff. spp.): F. oxysporum f. sp. ciceris (Foc-38-1) and f. sp. pisi (Fop-37622), significant pathogens of chickpea and pea respectively, the world’s second and third most important grain legumes, and lastly f. sp. medicaginis (Fom-5190a) for which we developed a model legume pathosystem utilising Medicago truncatula.
Results
Focusing on the identification of pathogenicity gene content, we leveraged the reference genomes of Fusarium pathogens F. oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (tomato-infecting) and F. solani (pea-infecting) and their well-characterised …
Scholar articles
AH Williams, M Sharma, LF Thatcher, S Azam, JK Hane… - BMC genomics, 2016