Phytophthora kernoviae Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Phytophthora kernoviae 00238/432

Phytophthora kernoviae is a plant pathogen that mainly infects European beech (Fagus sylvatica) and Rhododendron ponticum. It was first identified in 2003 in Cornwall, UK when scientists were surveying for the presence of Phytophthora ramorum. This made it the third new Phytophthora species to be found in the UK in a decade. Since then many other plants have been identified as natural hosts of the pathogen. Molecular analysis has revealed that an infection on Pinus radiata, recorded in New Zealand in 1950, was caused by P. kernoviae.

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Taxonomy ID 1284355

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Genome sequencing was carried out by the University of Exeter and Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA). 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 Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA) and the data was provided by 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.