Pythium vexans Assembly and Gene Annotation

About the Pythium vexans Genome

Pythium vexans is a plant pathogen and it causes canker, damping-off and rot disease in many economically important crops including rubber trees, potato and sugar cane. It belongs to the group oomycetes which was originally classified among the fungi, due to its morphological and functional similarities. They are now classifed as protists based on modern insights on phylogentic relationship with photosynthetic organisms such as brown algae and diatoms.

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_000387545.2 . The genome is ~33Mb and is assembled into 3685 scaffolds.

Annotation

11,957 gene models were imported from Pythium Genome Database and 35 ncRNA were predicted by 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.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.