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Recent approaches on the genomic analysis of the phytopathogenic fungus Colletotrichum spp.

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The genus Colletotrichum is considered one of the most relevant plant pathogens insofar as it is capable of causing damage to a wide variety of herbaceous and woody plants. The genome of 25 species of Colletotrichum, including 28 different strains, has recently been published; 15 of these strains are still at the annotation stage and thirteen are now at the ‘Fungal Standard Draft’ stage. This has enabled us to conduct a search of the gene sequences involved in the enzyme synthesis of the secondary metabolism of these fungi. Hence, the aim of this review is to provide an overview of the recent advances that have been achieved in the genome of Colletotrichum species and that serve as a source of information for future works which focusing on the correlation between the genetic sequences and the mechanisms of synthesis of the enzymes specific to the secondary metabolism of these filamentous fungi.

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  • 17 October 2020

    The authors wish to make it known that we mistakenly used some unpublished data from the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) database in some parts of this article in a way that violates the JGI usage agreement. We apologize to the principal investigators of the JGI Community Sequencing Projects (below) for this error.

Abbreviations

ACT:

Actin

AMP:

Adenosine monophosphate

CHS-1:

Chitin synthase 1

DMATS:

Dimethyl allyl tryptophan synthases

GAPDH:

Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase

HIS3:

Histone 3

ITS:

Internal transcribed spacer

JGI:

Joint Genome Institute

NRPS:

Non-ribosomal peptide synthases

PKS:

Polyketide synthases

PKS–NRPS:

Hybrid polyketide synthases–non ribosomal peptide synthetases

SDR:

Short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase

SMURF:

Secondary Metabolite Unique Regions Finder

TS:

Terpene synthases

TUB2:

β-Tubulin

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  1. Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Cádiz, 11510, Puerto Real, Spain

    Javier Moraga & Isidro G. Collado

  2. Department of Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Public Health, Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cádiz, 11510, Puerto Real, Spain

    María Carbú, Jesús M. Cantoral & Carlos Garrido

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Carbú, M., Moraga, J., Cantoral, J.M. et al. Recent approaches on the genomic analysis of the phytopathogenic fungus Colletotrichum spp.. Phytochem Rev 19, 589–601 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11101-019-09608-0

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