期刊
GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 10, 期 12, 页码 3243-3249出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evy240
关键词
fungi; phytopathology; genome; dothideomycetes; barley pathogen
资金
- Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry [KL/12/07, KL/08/07]
- Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection in frame of the project network BayKlimaFit [10]
- Hungarian Szechenyi 2020 Programme [GINOP-2.3.2-15-2016-00052]
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Technical University of Munich
Ramularia leaf spot has recently emerged as a major threat to barley production world-wide, causing 25% yield loss in many barley growing regions. Here, we provide a new reference genome of the causal agent, the Dothideomycete Ramularia collo-cygni. The assembly of 32 Mb consists of 78 scaffolds. We used RNA-seq to identify 11,622 genes of which 1,303 and 282 are coding for predicted secreted proteins and putative effectors respectively. The pathogen separated from its nearest sequenced relative, Zymoseptoria tritici similar to 27Ma. We calculated the divergence of the two species on protein level and see remarkably high synonymous and nonsynonymous divergence. Unlike in many other plant pathogens, the comparisons of transposable elements and gene distributions, show a very homogeneous genome for R. collo-cygni. We see no evidence for higher selective pressure on putative effectors or other secreted proteins and repetitive sequences are spread evenly across the scaffolds. These findings could be associated to the predominantly endophytic life-style of the pathogen. We hypothesize that R. collo-cygni only recently became pathogenic and that therefore its genome does not yet show the typical pathogen characteristics. Because of its high scaffold length and improved CDS annotations, our new reference sequence provides a valuable resource for the community for future comparative genomics and population genetics studies.
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