• Alexander Kanapin
  • Anastasia Samsonova
  • Tatyana Rozhmina
  • Michael Bankin
  • Anton Logachev
  • Maria Samsonova
Fusarium wilt is the most destructive fungal disease in flax, limiting flax cultivation in all the main flax and linseed growing countries. The causative agent is seedborne and soilborne fungus F. oxysporum f. sp. lini. Here, we report, for the first time, genome assemblies of five highly pathogenic isolates of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lini, namely monoisolate 39 and strains F329, F324, F282, F287. In addition, syntenic analysis provided a powerful approach to distinguish between core and lineage-specific parts of the genome. These results lay a solid foundation for comparative genomics studies of plant fungal pathogens, evolution of pathogenicity, and virulence factors underlying the dynamics of host-pathogen interactions, thus eventually offering solutions to Fusarium disease control.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1112-1115
Number of pages4
JournalMolecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Volume33
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2020

    Scopus subject areas

  • Agronomy and Crop Science
  • Physiology

    Research areas

  • Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium wilt, flax, genome, Flax, Genome

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