title: On the current status of Phakopsora pachyrhizi genome sequencing.
abstract: Recent advances in the field of sequencing technologies and bioinformatics allow a more rapid access to genomes of non-model organisms at sinking costs. Accordingly, draft genomes of several economically important cereal rust fungi have been released in the last 3 years. Aside from the very recent flax rust and poplar rust draft assemblies there are no genomic data available for other dicot-infecting rust fungi. In this article we outline rust fungus sequencing efforts and comment on the current status of Phakopsora pachyrhizi (Asian soybean rust) genome sequencing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Physiology, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University Aachen, Germany.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Loehrer
authors.affiliation: Institute for Botany and Molecular Genetics, Institute for Biology I, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University Aachen, Germany.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vogel
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln Germany.
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Huettel
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln Germany.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Reinhardt
authors.affiliation: Genomics Core Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Benes
authors.affiliation: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Interactions Arbres/Microorganismes, UMR 1136, Champenoux France ; Université de Lorraine, Interactions Arbres/Microorganismes, UMR 1136, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy France.
authors.forename: Sébastien
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Duplessis
authors.affiliation: Institute for Botany and Molecular Genetics, Institute for Biology I, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University Aachen, Germany ; Institute of Bio- and Geosciences-2 Plant Sciences, Institute for Bio- and Geosciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich Germany.
authors.forename: Björn
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Usadel
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Physiology, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University Aachen, Germany.
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Schaffrath
keywords: Asian soybean rust; fungal genomics; genome size; herterozygosity; k-mer analysis; next-generation sequencing; rust fungi