Klaus Klug, Pinkuan Zhu, Patrick Pattar, Tobias Mueller, Nassim Safari, Frederik Sommer, Claudio A Valero-Jiménez, Jan A L van Kan, Bruno Huettel, Kurt Stueber, David Scheuring, Michael Schroda, Matthias Hahn
While Botrytis cinerea causes gray mold on many plants, its close relative, Botrytis fabae , is host-specifically infecting predominantly faba bean plants. To explore the basis for its narrow host range, a gapless genome sequence of B. fabae strain G12 (BfabG12) was generated. The BfabG12 genome encompasses 45.0 Mb, with 16 chromosomal telomere-to-telomere contigs that show high synteny and sequence similarity to the corresponding B. cinerea B05.10 (BcB0510) chromosomes. Compared to BcB0510, it is 6% larger, due to many AT-rich regions containing remnants of transposable elements, but encodes fewer genes (11,420 vs...
March 14, 2024: Journal of Fungi (Basel, Switzerland)