Long-Read Draft Genome Sequences of Two Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Isolates from Banana (Musa spp.)

Jiaman Sun; Jinzhong Zhang; Donald M Gardiner; Peter van Dam; Gang Fu; Brett J Ferguson; Elizabeth A B Aitken; Andrew Chen

doi:10.3390/jof11060421

Long-Read Draft Genome Sequences of Two Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Isolates from Banana (Musa spp.)

J Fungi (Basel). 2025 May 30;11(6):421. doi: 10.3390/jof11060421.

Authors

Jiaman Sun^{1

2}, Jinzhong Zhang³, Donald M Gardiner⁴, Peter van Dam⁵, Gang Fu², Brett J Ferguson⁶, Elizabeth A B Aitken⁶, Andrew Chen⁶

Affiliations

¹ Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Conservation and Precision Utilization of Characteristic Agricultural Resources in Mountainous Areas, School of Life Science, Jiaying University, Meizhou 514015, China.
² Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning 530007, China.
³ Guangzhou Academy of Agricultural and Rural Sciences, Guangzhou 510335, China.
⁴ Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
⁵ Genetwister Technologies B.V., 6709 Wageningen, The Netherlands.
⁶ School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.

Abstract

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) causes Fusarium wilt, a devastating epidemic disease that has caused widespread damage to banana crops worldwide. We report the draft genomes of Foc race 1 (16117) and Foc tropical race 4 (Fusarium odoratissimum) (CNSD1) isolates from China, assembled using PacBio HiFi sequencing reads, with functional annotation performed. The strains group in distinct lineages within the Fusarium oxysporum species complex. This genetic resource will contribute towards understanding the pathogenicity and evolutionary dynamics of Foc populations in banana-growing regions around the world.

Keywords: Fusarium oxysporum species complex; Fusarium wilt of banana; PacBio HiFi; fungal effectors; genome assembly; pathogenicity; whole-genome phylogenetics.

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