IMA Genome - F13: Draft genome sequences of Ambrosiella cleistominuta, Cercospora brassicicola, C. citrullina, Physcia stellaris, and Teratosphaeria pseudoeucalypti

P Markus Wilken; Janneke Aylward; Ramesh Chand; Felix Grewe; Frances A Lane; Shagun Sinha; Claudio Ametrano; Isabel Distefano; Pradeep K Divakar; Tuan A Duong; Sabine Huhndorf; Ravindra N Kharwar; H Thorsten Lumbsch; Sudhir Navathe; Carlos A Pérez; Nazaret Ramírez-Berrutti; Rohit Sharma; Yukun Sun; Brenda D Wingfield; Michael J Wingfield

doi:10.1186/s43008-020-00039-7

IMA Genome - F13: Draft genome sequences of Ambrosiella cleistominuta, Cercospora brassicicola, C. citrullina, Physcia stellaris, and Teratosphaeria pseudoeucalypti

IMA Fungus. 2020 Sep 24:11:19. doi: 10.1186/s43008-020-00039-7. eCollection 2020.

Authors

P Markus Wilken¹, Janneke Aylward^{1

2}, Ramesh Chand³, Felix Grewe⁴, Frances A Lane¹, Shagun Sinha^#^{3

5}, Claudio Ametrano⁴, Isabel Distefano⁴, Pradeep K Divakar⁶, Tuan A Duong¹, Sabine Huhndorf⁴, Ravindra N Kharwar⁵, H Thorsten Lumbsch⁴, Sudhir Navathe^#⁷, Carlos A Pérez⁸, Nazaret Ramírez-Berrutti⁸, Rohit Sharma⁹, Yukun Sun⁴, Brenda D Wingfield¹, Michael J Wingfield¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Private Bag x20, Hatfield, Pretoria, 0028 South Africa.
² Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602 South Africa.
³ Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005 India.
⁴ Field Museum, Department of Science and Education, Grainger Bioinformatics Center, Chicago, IL USA.
⁵ Center of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005 India.
⁶ Departamento de Farmacología, Farmacognosia y Botánica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Plaza de Ramón y Cajal s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
⁷ Agharkar Research Institute, G.G. Agharkar Road, Pune, 411004 India.
⁸ Department of Plant Protection, EEMAC, Facultad de Agronomía, UdelaR, Paysandú, Uruguay.
⁹ National Centre for Microbial Resource, National Centre for Cell Science, S.P, Pune University, Pune, 411 007 India.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Draft genomes of the fungal species Ambrosiella cleistominuta, Cercospora brassicicola, C. citrullina, Physcia stellaris, and Teratosphaeria pseudoeucalypti are presented. Physcia stellaris is an important lichen forming fungus and Ambrosiella cleistominuta is an ambrosia beetle symbiont. Cercospora brassicicola and C. citrullina are agriculturally relevant plant pathogens that cause leaf-spots in brassicaceous vegetables and cucurbits respectively. Teratosphaeria pseudoeucalypti causes severe leaf blight and defoliation of Eucalyptus trees. These genomes provide a valuable resource for understanding the molecular processes in these economically important fungi.

Keywords: Ambrosia beetle; Brassica rapa subsp. rapa; Cercospora; Eucalyptus leaf pathogen; Foliose lichens; Lagenaria siceraria; Physcia; Teratosphaeria.