Pythium irregulare Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Globisporangium irregulare DAOM BR486

Pythium irregulare is a soil borne oomycete plant pathogen. Oomycetes, also known as "water molds", are fungal-like protists. They are fungal-like because of their similar life cycles, but differ in that the resting stage is diploid, they have coenocytic hyphae, a larger genome, cellulose in their cell walls instead of chitin, and contain zoospores (asexual motile spores) and oospores (sexual resting spores).

Taxonomy ID 1223557

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More information General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia

Assembly

The assembly for the genome was provided by Pythium Genome Database[and is also available from the EMBL/Genbank/DDBJ databases under the accession GCA_000387425.2

Annotation

The protein coding genes are imported from the Pythium Genome Database and 65 ncRNAs were predicted using Ensembl pipeline.

References

1. Pythium Genome Database.
   
2. Genome sequence of the necrotrophic plant pathogen Pythium ultimum reveals original pathogenicity mechanisms and effector repertoire.
   Lvesque CA, Brouwer H, Cano L, Hamilton JP, Holt C, Huitema E, Raffaele S, Robideau GP, Thines M, Win J et al. 2010. Genome Biol.. 11:R73.
3. Comparative genomics reveals insight into virulence strategies of plant pathogenic oomycetes.
   Adhikari BN, Hamilton JP, Zerillo MM, Tisserat N, Lvesque CA, Buell CR. 2013. PLoS ONE. 8:e75072.
4. Carbohydrate-active enzymes in pythium and their role in plant cell wall and storage polysaccharide degradation.
   Zerillo MM, Adhikari BN, Hamilton JP, Buell CR, Lvesque CA, Tisserat N. 2013. PLoS ONE. 8:e72572.

Picture credit: Creeping bent grass infected with Pythium irregulare hyphae - Photo taken by Dr. Marcelo Zerillo in the laboratory of Ned Tisserat

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.