Draft genome of the switchgrass head smut pathogen <i>Tilletia maclaganii</i>
<i>Tilletia maclaganii</i> is a smut fungal pathogen that causes significant biomass reduction of switchgrass (<i>Panicum virgatum</i>) used for animal forage and biofuel production. Here we present the annotated genome of <i>T. maclaganii</i>, strain Tm001-NY21, estimated at 42.79 Mb in size, in 53 assembled contigs and encoding 10,235 predicted genes. This genome will be important for future comparative studies of Ustilaginales across its geographic and host range.
Authors
- Vivian Ng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8941-6931)
- Igor V. Grigoriev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3136-8903)
- Stephen J. Mondo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5797-0647)
- Kevin Myers
- Anna Lipzen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2293-9329)
- Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1589-947X)
- Acer VanWallendael (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3900-2818)
- Robert Riley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0224-0975)
- David B. Lowry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8182-1059)
- Gary C. Bergstrom (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9613-270X)
- Mi Yan
- Chathu Wijewardana
- Jonathan Del Rosario
Institutions
- North Carolina State University (US)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- Joint Genome Institute (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (US)
- North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (US)
- Plant (United States) (US)
- Michigan State University (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Microbiology Resource Announcements
- Published
- 2025-11-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00991-25
- Primary Topic
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00