Phytophthora infestans Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Phytophthora infestans T30-4

Phytophthora infestans is an oomycete or water mold, a fungus-like microorganism that causes the serious potato and tomato disease known as late blight or potato blight. Early blight, caused by Alternaria solani, is also often called "potato blight". Late blight was a major culprit in the 1840s European, the 1845–1852 Irish, and the 1846 Highland potato famines. The organism can also infect some other members of the Solanaceae.[1][2][3] The pathogen is favored by moist, cool environments: sporulation is optimal at 12–18 °C (54–64 °F) in water-saturated or nearly saturated environments, and zoospore production is favored at temperatures below 15 °C (59 °F). Lesion growth rates are typically optimal at a slightly warmer temperature range of 20 to 24 °C (68 to 75 °F).

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Taxonomy ID 403677

(Text from Wikipedia.)

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Assembly

The assembly is available from the EMBL/Genbank/DDBJ databases under the accession GCA_000142945.1.

Annotation

The protein coding genes in this site are a direct import from Broad Institute and MIT under the
"Phytophthora infestans Sequencing Project
". The data was imported in December 2010. Non coding RNA genes have been annotated using tRNAScan-SE (Lowe, T.M. and Eddy, S.R. 1997), RFAM (Griffiths-Jones et al 2005), and RNAmmer (Lagesen K.,et al 2007); additional analysis tools have also been applied.

Variation

Variation database contains data from the resequecing for 3 different strains PIC99189 (ERP000341) , 90128 (ERP000343) and T30-4 (ERP000344).

References

1. Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans.
   Haas BJ, Kamoun S, Zody MC, Jiang RH, Handsaker RE, Cano LM, Grabherr M, Kodira CD, Raffaele S, Torto-Alalibo T et al. 2009. Nature. 461:393-398.
2. Identification and cloning of differentially expressed genes involved in the interaction between potato and Phytophthora infestans using a subtractive hybridization and cDNA-AFLP combinational approach.
   Henriquez MA, Daayf F. 2010. J Integr Plant Biol. 52:453-467.

Picture credit: Thomas J. Volk, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Other Data

The ESTs sequenced from different stages of pathogen infection were also downloaded from dbEST and aligned to the genome using exonerate.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.