Phytophthora lateralis Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Phytophthora lateralis MPF4

Phytophthora lateralis is a soil-borne plant pathogen that causes cedar root disease in Port Orford cedars (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana). This pathogen was first noted to cause disease in around 1920 on nursery stock near Seattle.Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia) is also vulnerable to P. lateralis but less susceptible than Lawson cypress trees, and tree mortality has only been observed in areas where C. lawsoniana trees were also infected. Asiatic species of Chamaecyparis are generally described as resistant to P. lateralis, although this pathogen is occasionally isolated from Chamaecyparis obtusa (Hinoki cypress) in nurseries.

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Taxonomy ID 1254522

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Genome sequencing was carried out by the University of Exeter and the Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute (AFBI). The genome assembly provided was imported from that submitted to INSDC as AOFI00000000.

Protein coding gene annotation was done by the University of Exeter and the Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute (AFBI), was imported from the data provided by the Exeter Centre for Emerging Plant Disease.

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.

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General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.