Genome Sequence of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis Strain NRRL 26406, a Fungus Causing Wilt Disease on Melon

Li-Jun Ma; Terrance Shea; Sarah Young; Qiandong Zeng; H Corby Kistler

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00730-14

Genome Sequence of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis Strain NRRL 26406, a Fungus Causing Wilt Disease on Melon

Genome Announc. 2014 Jul 31;2(4):e00730-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00730-14.

Authors

Li-Jun Ma¹, Terrance Shea², Sarah Young², Qiandong Zeng², H Corby Kistler³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA lijun@biochem.umass.edu.
² Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
³ United States Department of Agriculture, ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

Abstract

Horizontal chromosome transfer introduces host-specific pathogenicity among members of the Fusarium oxysporum species complex and is responsible for some of the most destructive and intractable plant diseases. This paper reports the genome sequence of F. oxysporum f. sp. melonis (NRRL 26406), a causal agent of Fusarium wilt disease on melon.