Draft Genome Sequence of the Fungus Associated with Oak Wilt Mortality in South Korea, Raffaelea quercus-mongolicae KACC44405

Jongbum Jeon; Ki-Tae Kim; Hyeunjeong Song; Gir-Won Lee; Kyeongchae Cheong; Hyunbin Kim; Gobong Choi; Yong-Hwan Lee; Jane E Stewart; Ned B Klopfenstein; Mee-Sook Kim

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00797-17

Draft Genome Sequence of the Fungus Associated with Oak Wilt Mortality in South Korea, Raffaelea quercus-mongolicae KACC44405

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 24;5(34):e00797-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00797-17.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Interdisciplinary Program in Agricultural Genomics, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
² Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
³ Korea DNA Bank, Seongnam, South Korea.
⁴ Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
⁵ USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, Idaho, USA.
⁶ Department of Forestry, Environment and Systems, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea mkim@kookmin.ac.kr.

Abstract

The fungus Raffaelea quercus-mongolicae is the causal agent of Korean oak wilt, a disease associated with mass mortality of oak trees (e.g., Quercus spp.). The fungus is vectored and dispersed by the ambrosia beetle, Platypus koryoensis Here, we present the 27.0-Mb draft genome sequence of R. quercus-mongolicae strain KACC44405.