High-Quality Reference Genome Sequence for the Oomycete Vegetable Pathogen Phytophthora capsici Strain LT1534

Jason E Stajich; Andrea L Vu; Howard S Judelson; Gregory M Vogel; Michael A Gore; Maryn O Carlson; Nicholas Devitt; Jennifer Jacobi; Joann Mudge; Kurt H Lamour; Christine D Smart

doi:10.1128/MRA.00295-21

High-Quality Reference Genome Sequence for the Oomycete Vegetable Pathogen Phytophthora capsici Strain LT1534

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 May 27;10(21):e0029521. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00295-21. Epub 2021 May 27.

Authors

Jason E Stajich^{1

2}, Andrea L Vu^{1

2}, Howard S Judelson^{1

2}, Gregory M Vogel³, Michael A Gore³, Maryn O Carlson³, Nicholas Devitt⁴, Jennifer Jacobi⁴, Joann Mudge⁴, Kurt H Lamour⁵, Christine D Smart³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA.
² Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA.
³ School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Geneva, New York, USA.
⁴ National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
⁵ Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

Abstract

The oomycete Phytophthora capsici is a destructive pathogen of a wide range of vegetable hosts, especially peppers and cucurbits. A 94.17-Mb genome assembly was constructed using PacBio and Illumina data and annotated with support from transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) reads.

Abstract

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