Genome analysis of woody pathogens of Botryosphaeriaceae reveals extensive horizontal gene transfer and its potential contribution to the infection of wide range of host plants

Botryosphaeriaceae is an important fungal family that can colonize a wide range of woody hosts including economically important plants and cause serious disease worldwide. In this study, with the combination of PacBio Sequel and Illumina pair-end methods, we sequenced the genome of nine strains selected from four species across three genera of Botryosphaeriaceae: Botryosphaeria dothidea, Neofusicoccum parvum, Lasiodiplodia theobromae and L. pseudotheobromae to study the mechanisms of virulence variation and wide range of host infection in this family