Phytophthora meadii Raw sequence reads
Arecanut (Areca catechu L.) is an important commercial plantation crop widely cultivated in Southern and Southeast Asian countries such as India, China, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Philippines, and Papua New Guinea . Fruit rot disease, incited by the oomycete Phytophthora meadii (McRae), is the most devastating disease, resulting in economic losses ranging from 10 to 90%. This devastating disease commonly occurs in traditional arecanut-growing ecosystems of Karnataka and Kerala during the South-West monsoon inflict huge economic losses. We have undertaken RNA-sequencing of P. meadii mycelia on an Illumina HiseqTM4000 platform.