Phytophthora melonis strain:CPHST BL 23 Genome sequencing and assembly

The reference sequences derived from type specimens serve to label with the correct and most up-to-date species name. The Ex-type material are cultures and duplicates of the Type and deposited in additional culture collections. In order to make robust and correct molecular identification and diagnostic systems, it is crucial to have information from the Ex-type specimens for accurate comparisons. Katsura in 1976 described Phytophthora melonis to accommodate the causal agent of foot rot of cucumber in Japan. Here we report the whole-genome sequence for the Ex-type of Phytophthora melonis CPHST-BL 23 duplicate of P6870 (World Oomycetes/Phytophthora Collection) generated using 3G ultra-long sequencing via the MinION platform from Oxford Nanopore Technology. The quality filtered 1,621,287reads were assembled in contigs, total length 112 Mb.