Aleurodicus rugioperculatus strain:Martin Genome sequencing and assembly
Rugose spiraling whitefly (RSW), Aleurodicus rugioperculatus is a highly invasive sucking pest on plantation crops. Both the nymphs and adults sucks the plant sap from the under surface of the leaves, exuding honey dew which fall on the upper surface of leaves. Upon this honeydew, black sooty mould gets established further reducing the photosynthetic efficiency of the affected palms. Severe infestation leads to premature drying and complete dropping of fronds. A genome assembly for the isolate RSW45 was generated using Pacbio sequencing data, and annotated with the support of transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) reads.