Genome Sequence of a Lethal Vascular Wilt Fungus, Verticillium nonalfalfae, a Biological Control Used Against the Invasive Ailanthus altissima

Matt T Kasson; Lindsay R Kasson; Kristen L Wickert; Donald D Davis; Jason E Stajich

doi:10.1128/MRA.01619-18

Genome Sequence of a Lethal Vascular Wilt Fungus, Verticillium nonalfalfae, a Biological Control Used Against the Invasive Ailanthus altissima

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Jan 24;8(4):e01619-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01619-18. eCollection 2019 Jan.

Authors

Matt T Kasson¹, Lindsay R Kasson², Kristen L Wickert¹, Donald D Davis³, Jason E Stajich⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
² School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
³ Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA.

Abstract

Verticillium nonalfalfae, a cosmopolitan soil-borne phytopathogen, causes vascular wilt in agricultural crops and perennial woody plants. Select strains of V. nonalfalfae can cause lethal disease in the invasive tree Ailanthus altissima and several have since been utilized as a biological control (biocontrol) against this widespread invader. Here, we report the genome sequence and annotation of V. nonalfalfae strain VnAa140/NRRL 66861.

Grants and funding

S10 OD016290/OD/NIH HHS/United States