Draft Genome Sequence of Cercospora arachidicola, Causal Agent of Early Leaf Spot in Peanuts

Valerie A Orner; Emily G Cantonwine; Xinye Monica Wang; Amr Abouelleil; James Bochicchio; Chad Nusbaum; Albert K Culbreath; Zaid Abdo; Renee S Arias

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01281-15

Draft Genome Sequence of Cercospora arachidicola, Causal Agent of Early Leaf Spot in Peanuts

Genome Announc. 2015 Nov 5;3(6):e01281-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01281-15.

Authors

Valerie A Orner¹, Emily G Cantonwine², Xinye Monica Wang³, Amr Abouelleil⁴, James Bochicchio⁴, Chad Nusbaum⁴, Albert K Culbreath⁵, Zaid Abdo⁶, Renee S Arias¹

Affiliations

¹ National Peanut Research Laboratory, Dawson, Georgia, USA renee.arias@ars.usda.gov valerie.orner@ars.usda.gov.
² Department of Biology, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, USA.
³ National Peanut Research Laboratory, Dawson, Georgia, USA.
⁴ Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Tifton, Georgia, USA.
⁶ USDA, ARS, SEA, Athens, Georgia, USA.

Abstract

Cercospora arachidicola, causal agent of early leaf spot, is an economically important peanut pathogen. Lack of genetic information about this fungus prevents understanding the role that potentially diverse genotypes may have in peanut breeding programs. Here, we report for the first time a draft genome sequence of C. arachidicola.