Draft whole-genome sequence of the Diaporthe helianthi 7/96 strain, causal agent of sunflower stem canker

Riccardo Baroncelli; Felice Scala; Mariarosaira Vergara; Michael R Thon; Michelina Ruocco

doi:10.1016/j.gdata.2016.11.005

Draft whole-genome sequence of the Diaporthe helianthi 7/96 strain, causal agent of sunflower stem canker

Genom Data. 2016 Nov 11:10:151-152. doi: 10.1016/j.gdata.2016.11.005. eCollection 2016 Dec.

Authors

Riccardo Baroncelli¹, Felice Scala², Mariarosaira Vergara³, Michael R Thon⁴, Michelina Ruocco⁵

Affiliations

¹ Universitaire de Biodiversité et Ecologie Microbienne (LUBEM), University of Western Brittany, Avenue du Technopole, 29280 Plouzané, France.
² Dipartimento di Agraria, via Università 100, 80055 portici (NA), Italy; Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, sede secondaria di Portici, (IPSP-CNR) via Università 133, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy.
³ Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy.
⁴ Instituto Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias (CIALE), University of Salamanca, Campus de Villamayor, C/ Del Duero, 12; 37185 Villamayor (Salamanca), Spain.
⁵ Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, sede secondaria di Portici, (IPSP-CNR) via Università 133, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy.

Abstract

Diaporthe helianthi is a fungus pathogenic to sunflower. Virulent strains of this fungus cause stem canker with important yield losses and reduction of oil content. Here we present the first draft whole-genome sequence of the highly virulent isolate D. helianthi strain 7/96, thus providing a useful platform for future research on stem canker of sunflower and fungal genomics. The genome sequence of the D. helianthi isolate 7/96 was deposited at DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under the accession number MAVT00000000 (BioProject PRJNA327798).