PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bo Wang
AU  - Houlin Yu
AU  - Yanyan Jia
AU  - Quanbin Dong
AU  - Christian Steinberg
AU  - Claude Alabouvette
AU  - Veronique Edel-Hermann
AU  - H. Corby Kistler
AU  - Kai Ye
AU  - Li-Jun Ma
AU  - Li Guo
TI  - Chromosome-scale genome assembly of <em>Fusarium oxysporum</em> strain Fo47, a fungal endophyte and biocontrol agent
AID  - 10.1101/2020.05.22.110718
DP  - 2020 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2020.05.22.110718
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/05/23/2020.05.22.110718.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/05/23/2020.05.22.110718.full
AB  - Here, we report a chromosome-level genome assembly of Fusarium oxysporum strain Fo47 (12 pseudomolecules; contig N50: 4.52Mb), generated using a combination of PacBio long-read, Illumina pair-ended and Hi-C sequencing data. Although F. oxysporum causes vascular wilt to over 100 plant species, the strain Fo47 is classified as an endophyte and widely used as a biocontrol agent for plant disease control. The Fo47 genome carries a single accessory chromosome of 4.23 Mb, compared to the reference genome of F. oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici strain Fol4287. The high-quality assembly and annotation of the Fo47 genome will be a valuable resource for studying the mechanisms underlying the endophytic interactions between F. oxysporum and plants, as well as deciphering the genome evolution of the F. oxysporum species complex.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.