PRJNA701145
Pythium myriotylum isolate:SL2 Raw sequence reads
Oomycetes, such as the broad host-range necrotrophic plant pathogen Pythium myriotylum, cause devastating crop losses. We have previously identified P. myriotylum as the major pathogen infecting ginger (Zingiber officinale) rhizomes in China with symptoms of Pythium soft rot (PSR) disease. Ginger is an important crop with global production estimated at approximately three million metric tonnes with about 20% of this production in China. Our goals for sequencing the genome of P. myriotylum isolate SL2 were to better understand the pathogenicity of P. myriotylum by comparative genomics.