Draft Genome Sequence of a Fungus (Fusarium tricinctum) Cultured from a Monoisolate Native to the Himalayas

Narendra Meena; M Vasundhara; M Sudhakara Reddy; Prashanth Suravajhala; U S Raghavender; Krishna Mohan Medicherla

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00365-18

Draft Genome Sequence of a Fungus (Fusarium tricinctum) Cultured from a Monoisolate Native to the Himalayas

Genome Announc. 2018 May 17;6(20):e00365-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00365-18.

Authors

Narendra Meena¹, M Vasundhara², M Sudhakara Reddy², Prashanth Suravajhala¹, U S Raghavender¹, Krishna Mohan Medicherla³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
² Department of Biotechnology, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India.
³ Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India kmohan@bisr.res.in.

Abstract

Here, we report the draft de novo genome sequence assembly of Fusarium tricinctum (strain T6), using IonTorrent sequencing chemistry and an Ion 530 chip ExT kit for sequencing. The genome assembly resulted in 42,732,204 bp from a total 6.62 Gb, with a median read length of 386 bp.