@article{38c93b2c66b848f5b02d3acb58a5160e,
title = "Genome sequence of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica EP155: A fundamental resource for an archetypical invasive plant pathogen",
abstract = "Cryphonectria parasitica is the causal agent of chestnut blight, a fungal disease that almost entirely eliminated mature American chestnut from North America over a 50-year period. Here, we formally report the genome of C. parasitica EP155 using a Sanger shotgun sequencing approach. After finishing and integration with simple-sequence repeat markers, the assembly was 43.8 Mb in 26 scaffolds (L50 = 5; N50 = 4.0Mb). Eight chromosomes are predicted: five scaffolds have two telomeres and six scaffolds have one telomere sequence. In total, 11,609 gene models were predicted, of which 85% show similarities to other proteins. This genome resource has already increased the utility of a fundamental plant pathogen experimental system through new understanding of the fungal vegetative incompatibility system, with significant implications for enhancing mycovirus-based biological control.",
keywords = "Chestnut blight, Forest pathology, Mycology, Mycoviruses, Transposable elements, Vegetative incompatibility",
author = "Crouch, {Jo Anne} and Angus Dawe and Andrea Aerts and Kerrie Barry and Churchill, {Alice C.L.} and Jane Grimwood and Hillman, {Bradley I.} and Milgroom, {Michael G.} and Jasmyn Pangilinan and Myron Smith and Asaf Salamov and Jeremy Schmutz and Yadav, {Jagjit S.} and Grigoriev, {Igor V.} and Nuss, {Donald L.}",
note = "Funding Information: †Corresponding authors: J. A. Crouch; joanne.crouch@usda.gov; and A. Dawe; dawe@biology.msstate.edu Funding: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), grant number DE-AC02-05CH11231. Funding Information: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, which is supported by the Office of Science of the DOE under contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231 awarded to D. L. Nuss, A. C. L. Churchill, and M. G. Milgroom, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract number DE-AC52-07NA27344, and Los Alamos National Laboratory under contract number DE-AC02-06NA25396. The project has been supported since its inception through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Hatch Multistate Research Program, initially through project number NE140, currently project number NE1833. J. A. Crouch is supported by USDA Agricultural Research Service project 8042-22000-298-00-D. A. Dawe and D. L. Nuss were supported by National Science Foundation collaborative awards MCB-1051453 and MCB-1051331, respectively. B. I. Hillman was supported by USDA-NIFA Hatch and McIntire-Stennis Research Programs and by the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. M. Smith is supported by an NSERC Discovery Grant. The P450 work was supported by the University of Cincinnati funds to J. S. Yadav. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 American Phytopathological Society. All rights reserved.",
year = "2020",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1094/PHYTO-12-19-0478-A",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "110",
pages = "1180--1188",
journal = "Phytopathology",
issn = "0031-949X",
publisher = "American Phytopathological Society",
number = "6",
}