Sequencing Project of highly virulent Rhizoctonia solani fungus infecting Proso Millet

Proso millet is prone to various biotic stresses which includes diseases such as smut, rust, blast, brown spot, foot rot, banded blight, and some other viral diseases. One of the dreadful disease that hinders the successful cultivation of Proso millet is banded blight, which is caused by Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn with yield losses ranging from 50 to 97.6%. In order to understand pathogen host interaction between Proso millet and the most virulent strain of Rhizoctonia solani infecting it, we have sequenced the genome of R. solani, assembled it and have analyzed its functional genome.