Whole genome sequence of virulent Phytophthora meadii isolate causing abnormal leaf fall disease in rubber trees(Hevea Brasiliensis ).
Short reads generated on the Illumina NOvaseq 6000 platform were checked for low quality bases and adapter content using FastQC. Adapter decontamination and removal of low quality bases was done using fastp. High quality reads were used to determine kmers of size 21 and 31 using ntcard (v1.2.2). The unique kmers were then used to infer genome characteristics such as repeat content, heterozygosity, genome size and duplications using genomescope (v2.0). Genome assembly was performed using MaSuRCA (v4.0.8). To assess the contiguity and quality of genome assembly, QUAST (v5.2.0) was used to generate basic stats, BUSCO (v5.3.1) was used to assess genome completeness.