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Lasiodiplodia theobromae is a phytopathogenic fungus, which can cause many different diseases on different crops. The pathogen can cause leaf spot on tea plants (Camellia sinensis), which negatively affects the productivity and quality of tea leaves in tea plantations in Guizhou Province, China. Although the genome sequence of L. theobromae has been published, no data on the transcriptome or small RNA sequences of L. theobromae under in vitro conditions and the course of infection of tea leaf are available. Here, we report the high-quality transcriptome and small RNA sequences of L. theobromae in vitro conditions and the course of infection of tea leaf using the platform of Illumina HiSeq. This comprehensive expression profiling of the fungal pathogen will provide a valuable resource for future research on trait-specific genes of the pathogen, host-pathogen interactions, and disease resistance in the host. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The fungal pathogen Didymella segeticola (basionym Phoma segeticola) causes leaf spot on tea (Camellia sinensis), which leads to a loss in tea leaf production in Guizhou Province, China. D. segeticola isolate GZSQ-4 was sequenced using lllumina HiSeq and Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) RS technologies, and then assembled to approximately 33.4 Mbp with a scaffold N50 value of approximately 2.3 Mbp. In total, 10,893 genes were predicted using the Nonredundant, Gene Ontology, Clusters of Orthologous Groups, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes, and SWISS-PROT databases. The whole-genome sequence of D. segeticola will provide a resource for future research on host-pathogen interactions, determination of trait-specific genes, pathogen evolution, and plant-host adaptation mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]