Erysiphe necator Genome sequencing isolate lodi

Erysiphe necator, the causal agent of grapevine powdery mildew, is an agriculturally and economically important fungal pathogen. The goal of this project is to supplement the c-strain for E. necator with another genotype for isolate variant studies. The E. necator isolate lodi genome was sequenced at 42X coverage using an Illumina shotgun sequencing approach. The source of DNA was conidia collected from infected grapevine leaves at 20 days post inoculation. The reads were assembled into 6,884 scaffolds. The E. necator genome has an estimated size of 125Mb and a repetitive content of 60%.