Rhodotorula kratochvilovae strain:LS11 Genome sequencing and assembly. Rhodotorula kratochvilovae strain:LS11

Rhodotorula kratochvilovae strain LS11 is a biocontrol agent red yeast isolated from olives of a local southern Italian cultivar. It exerts its antagonistic activity through competition for nutrients and space, followed by the production of lytic enzymes that degrades pathogens’ cell walls. R. kratochvilovae LS11 is compatible with food grade compounds that enhance its antagonistic activity, and it is tolerant to fungicides used in postharvest, thus being suitable for integrated control. Moreover, R. kratochvilovae LS11 is able to resist and degrade patulin, a hazardous mycotoxin produced by P. expansum, through two independent pathways that form the breakdown products ascladiol and desoxypatulinic acid.