Genome Sequence and Annotation of Colletotrichum higginsianum, a Causal Agent of Crucifer Anthracnose Disease

Antonios Zampounis; Sandrine Pigné; Jean-Félix Dallery; Alexander H J Wittenberg; Shiguo Zhou; David C Schwartz; Michael R Thon; Richard J O'Connell

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00821-16

Genome Sequence and Annotation of Colletotrichum higginsianum, a Causal Agent of Crucifer Anthracnose Disease

Genome Announc. 2016 Aug 18;4(4):e00821-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00821-16.

Authors

Antonios Zampounis¹, Sandrine Pigné¹, Jean-Félix Dallery¹, Alexander H J Wittenberg², Shiguo Zhou³, David C Schwartz³, Michael R Thon⁴, Richard J O'Connell⁵

Affiliations

¹ UMR BIOGER, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Thiverval-Grignon, France.
² KeyGene N.V., Wageningen, The Netherlands.
³ Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
⁴ Instituto Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias (CIALE), Department of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
⁵ UMR BIOGER, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Thiverval-Grignon, France richard.oconnell@versailles.inra.fr.

Abstract

Colletotrichum higginsianum is an ascomycete fungus causing anthracnose disease on numerous cultivated plants in the family Brassicaceae, as well as the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana We report an assembly of the nuclear genome and gene annotation of this pathogen, which was obtained using a combination of PacBio long-read sequencing and optical mapping.