First Draft Genome Sequence of Wheat Spot Blotch Pathogen Bipolaris sorokiniana BS_112 from India, Obtained Using Hybrid Assembly

Rashmi Aggarwal; Sapna Sharma; Kartar Singh; Malkhan Singh Gurjar; Mahender Singh Saharan; Sangeeta Gupta; Bishnu Maya Bashyal; Kishor Gaikwad

doi:10.1128/MRA.00308-19

First Draft Genome Sequence of Wheat Spot Blotch Pathogen Bipolaris sorokiniana BS_112 from India, Obtained Using Hybrid Assembly

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Sep 19;8(38):e00308-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00308-19.

Authors

Rashmi Aggarwal¹, Sapna Sharma², Kartar Singh², Malkhan Singh Gurjar², Mahender Singh Saharan², Sangeeta Gupta², Bishnu Maya Bashyal², Kishor Gaikwad³

Affiliations

¹ Fungal Molecular Biology Laboratory, Division of Plant Pathology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India rashmi.aggarwal2@gmail.com.
² Fungal Molecular Biology Laboratory, Division of Plant Pathology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India.
³ ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi, India.

Abstract

Bipolaris sorokiniana is a devastating fungal pathogen causing spot blotch of wheat. We report here the first draft genome of Bipolaris sorokiniana strain BS_112 from India using sequence reads from the Ion Torrent, Illumina HiSeq, and Nanopore platforms. The genome size was estimated at 35.64 Mb with an average G+C content of 50.20%.