Improved Draft Genome Sequence of a Monoteliosporic Culture of the Karnal Bunt (Tilletia indica) Pathogen of Wheat

Anil Kumar; Pallavi Mishra; Ranjeet Maurya; A K Mishra; Vijai K Gupta; Pramod W Ramteke; Soma S Marla

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00015-18

Improved Draft Genome Sequence of a Monoteliosporic Culture of the Karnal Bunt (Tilletia indica) Pathogen of Wheat

Genome Announc. 2018 May 17;6(20):e00015-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00015-18.

Authors

Anil Kumar^#¹, Pallavi Mishra^#^{2

3}, Ranjeet Maurya^#⁴, A K Mishra², Vijai K Gupta⁵, Pramod W Ramteke⁶, Soma S Marla^#⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India anilkumar.mbge@gmail.com ssmarl@yahoo.com.
² ICAR-Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, India.
³ Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, India.
⁴ Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India.
⁵ Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, ERA Chair of Green Chemistry, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia.
⁶ Department of Biological Sciences, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, India.
⁷ Division of Genomic Resources, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, India anilkumar.mbge@gmail.com ssmarl@yahoo.com.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Karnal bunt of wheat is an internationally quarantined fungal pathogen disease caused by Tilletia indica and affects the international commercial seed trade of wheat. We announce here the first improved draft genome assembly of a monoteliosporic culture of the Tilletia indica fungus, consisting of 787 scaffolds with an approximate total genome size of 31.83 Mbp, which is more accurate and near to complete than the previous version.