1. Draft Genome Sequence Resource of the Citrus Stem-End Rot Fungal Pathogen Lasiodiplodia theobromae CITRA15
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Ricardo Oliva, Yisel Carrillo Tarazona, Qiaolin Zheng, Youjian Lin, Katia Rodrigues-Stuart, Jiuxu Zhang, Guohong Liu, Lukas A. Mueller, Liliana M. Cano, Egem Ozbudak, Megan M. Dewdney, Mark A. Ritenour, Bo Liu, Prashant S. Hosmani, Surya Saha, and Mirella Flores-Gonzalez
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0106 biological sciences ,Whole genome sequencing ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,food and beverages ,Plant Science ,Fungal pathogen ,biology.organism_classification ,Diplodia ,01 natural sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,Horticulture ,Greening ,Disease management (agriculture) ,Postharvest ,Preharvest ,Agronomy and Crop Science ,030304 developmental biology ,010606 plant biology & botany ,Lasiodiplodia theobromae - Abstract
Lasiodiplodia theobromae is a fungal pathogen associated with perennial tropical fruit plants worldwide. In citrus, L. theobromae causes stem-end rot (Diplodia stem-end rot), a damaging postharvest disease that is aggravated when trees are also infected with the citrus greening bacteria ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’. Due to the latent infection of L. theobromae during the preharvest stage, it becomes difficult to control the disease by chemical or physical treatment. In the current study, we sequenced and assembled strain CITRA15, the first genome of L. theobromae obtained from diseased Citrus paradise ‘Flame’ grapefruit in Florida, and thereby provided a genomic resource for future research on diagnostics, and postharvest and preharvest disease management of citrus and other fruit crops.
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- 2021
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