Resource announcement details genome of Colletotrichum shisoi, a fungal pathogen targeting invasive Perilla frutescens, suggesting its use in biological control.
Colletotrichum shisoi is a fungal pathogen of Perilla frutescens, a mint species cultivated in some countries but considered invasive in the United States. This resource announcement reports the availability of a new, highly contiguous genome sequence generated from the North American C. shisoi isolate FDWSRU 21-072, which has been proposed for use as a biological control agent of invasive P. frutescens. Long-read PacBio sequencing produced a genome assembly of 48 contigs and 86.9 Mb, a significant improvement over a previous assembly of 20,745 contigs and 69.7 Mb from the Japanese Type culture. The C. shisoi genome contains a large amount of repetitive, non-coding sequence content, and the improved assembly will be useful for comparative studies of Colletotrichum species.
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