Draft Genome Sequence of the Oomycete Globisporangium splendens Strain rgcb-1

Rani Jalajakumari Reghu; Biju Vadakkemukadiyil Chellappan; Shenu Hudson Beena; Anu Sasi; Soniya Eppurathu Vasudevan; Achuthsankar Sukumaran Nair

doi:10.1128/MRA.01006-19

Draft Genome Sequence of the Oomycete Globisporangium splendens Strain rgcb-1

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Apr 16;9(16):e01006-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01006-19.

Authors

Rani Jalajakumari Reghu¹, Biju Vadakkemukadiyil Chellappan², Shenu Hudson Beena², Anu Sasi², Soniya Eppurathu Vasudevan³, Achuthsankar Sukumaran Nair²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Kariavattom Campus, Trivandrum, Kerala, India rani1983@gmail.com.
² Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Kariavattom Campus, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
³ Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

Abstract

Globisporangium splendens (formerly Pythium splendens) is an oomycete pathogen of many economically important vegetable crops. Here, we present the first draft genome of P. splendens, which comprises 197 scaffolds with a total length of 53.3 Mb and 17,350 predicted protein-coding genes.