Perumal Nallathambi, Chandrasekaran Umamaheswari, Bhaskar Reddy, Balakrishnan Aarthy, Mohammed Javed, Priya Ravikumar, Santosh Watpade, Prem Lal Kashyap, Govindaraju Boopalakrishnan, Sudheer Kumar, Anju Sharma, Aundy Kumar
A high-quality genome sequence from an Indian isolate of Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici Wtn1, a persistent threat in wheat farming, was obtained using a hybrid method. The assembly of over 9.24 million DNA-sequence reads resulted in 93 contigs, totaling a 140.61 Mb genome size, potentially encoding 8480 genes. Notably, more than 73.80% of the genome, spanning approximately 102.14 Mb, comprises retro-elements, LTR elements, and P elements, influencing evolution and adaptation significantly. The phylogenomic analysis placed B...
April 3, 2024: Journal of Fungi (Basel, Switzerland)