Draft Genome Sequence of the Fungus Penicillium solitum NJ1

Guohua Yin; Yuliang Zhang; Kayla K Pennerman; Sui Sheng T Hua; Jiujiang Yu; Anping Guo; Zhixin Liu; Joan W Bennett

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01176-16

Draft Genome Sequence of the Fungus Penicillium solitum NJ1

Genome Announc. 2016 Nov 23;4(6):e01176-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01176-16.

Authors

Guohua Yin^{1

2}, Yuliang Zhang³, Kayla K Pennerman², Sui Sheng T Hua⁴, Jiujiang Yu⁵, Anping Guo³, Zhixin Liu³, Joan W Bennett²

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, Hainan, China guohuayin1997@gmail.com.
² Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
³ Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, Hainan, China.
⁴ U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California, USA.
⁵ U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

Penicillium solitum is one of the most prevalent species causing postharvest decay of pomaceous fruits during storage. Here, we report the draft genome of P. solitum strain NJ1, received as a transfer of a strain originally identified as P. griseofulvum by classical means.