Nigrospora oryzae is an important phytopathogenic fungus with a broad host range. Here, we report an annotated draft of the genome of N. oryzae field strain GZL1 collected from maize assembled from PacBio and Illumina sequencing reads. The assembly we obtained has 15 scaffolds with an N50 length of 4,037,616 bp. The resulting GZL1 draft genome is 43,214,190 bp, with GC content of 58.19%. The completeness of GZL1 genome assembly is 99.30%. This study is the first report of the genome sequence of N. oryzae, which can facilitate future study of the genetic variation and pathogenic mechanism of this important fungal pathogen.[Formula: see text] Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.
Keywords: Nigrospora oryzae; PacBio sequencing; genomics; pathogenesis.