RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2019 Sep;32(9):1088-1090. doi: 10.1094/MPMI-12-18-0352-A. Epub 2019 Jul 11.
species complex fungi are hemibiotrophic plant pathogens that cause anthracnose of field crops and weeds. Members of this group have genomes that are remarkably expanded relative to other fungi and compartmentalized into AT-rich, gene-poor and GC-rich, gene-rich regions. Here, we present an updated version of the genome, as well as draft genomes of three other members from the species complex: the alfalfa pathogen , the prickly mallow pathogen , and the burweed pathogen . The data reported here will be important for comparative genomics analyses to identify factors that play a role in the evolution and maintenance of the expanded, compartmentalized genomes of these fungi, which may contribute to their pathogenicity.
种复合体真菌是半活体营养型植物病原体，可引起大田作物和杂草的炭疽病。该组的成员具有显著扩展的基因组，相对其他真菌，其基因组被分隔成富含 AT、基因贫乏和富含 GC、基因丰富的区域。在这里，我们呈现了该基因组的更新版本，以及种复合体的另外三个成员的草图基因组：苜蓿病原体、刺叶锦葵病原体和野芝麻病原体。这里报道的数据对于比较基因组学分析将是重要的，有助于确定在这些真菌扩展的、分隔的基因组的进化和维持中发挥作用的因素，这些因素可能有助于它们的致病性。
