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GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Volume 12, Issue 12, Pages 2491-2507Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa218
Keywords
ancestral genome; horizontal transfer; necrotroph; secondary metabolite
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- Dutch Technology Foundation STW part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- Ministry of Economic Affairs [15003]
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Fungi of the genus Bottytis infect >1,400 plant species and cause losses in many crops. Besides the broad host range pathogen Botrytis cinema, most other species are restricted to a single host. Long-read technology was used to sequence genomes of eight Botrytis species, mostly pathogenic on Allium species, and the related onion white rot fungus, Sclerotium cepivorum. Most assemblies contained <100 contigs, with the Botrytis adada genome assembled in 16 gapless chromosomes. The core genome and pangenome of 16 Botrytis species were defined and the secretome, effector, and secondary metabolite repertoires analyzed. Among those genes, none is shared among all Allium pathogens and absent from non Allium pathogens. The genome of each of the Allium pathogens contains 8-39 predicted effector genes that are unique for that single species, none stood out as potential determinant for host specificity. Chromosome configurations of common ancestors of the genus Bottytis and family Sclerotiniaceae were reconstructed. The genomes of B. cinema and B. adada were highly syntenic with only 19 rearrangements between them. Genomes of Allium pathogens were compared with ten other Botrytis species (nonpathogenic on Allium) and with 25 Leotiomycetes for their repertoire of secondary metabolite gene clusters. The pattern was complex, with several clusters displaying patchy distribution. Two clusters involved in the synthesis of phytotoxic metabolites are at distinct genomic locations in different Botrytis species. We provide evidence that the clusters for botcinic acid production in B. cinema and Botrytis sinoalliiwere acquired by horizontal transfer from taxa within the same genus.
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