Draft genomes of two Australian strains of the plant pathogen,

The oomycete plant pathogen, , is Background: Phytophthora cinnamomi responsible for the destruction of thousands of species of native Australian plants, as well as several crops, such as avocado and macadamia, and has one of the widest host-plant ranges of the genus. The currently Phytophthora available genome of is based on an atypical strain and has large P. cinnamomi gaps in its assembly. To further studies of the pathogenicity of this species, especially in Australia, more robust assemblies of the genomes of more typical strains are required. Here we report the genome sequencing, draft assembly, and preliminary annotation of two geographically separated Australian strains of . P. cinnamomi Some 308 million raw reads were generated for the two strains. Findings: Independent genome assembly produced final genomes of 62.8 Mb (in 14,268 scaffolds) and 68.1 Mb (in 10,084 scaffolds), which are comparable in size and contiguity to other genomes. Gene prediction yielded > 22,000 Phytophthora predicted protein-encoding genes within each genome, while BUSCO assessment showed 82.5% and 81.8% of the eukaryote universal single-copy orthologs to be present in the assembled genomes, respectively. The assembled genomes of two geographically distant isolates Conclusions: of will provide a valuable resource for further Phytophthora cinnamomi comparative analysis and evolutionary studies of this destructive pathogen, and further annotation of the presented genomes may yield possible targets for novel pathogen control methods. This article is included in the Global Open Data for gateway. Agriculture and Nutrition 1 1