Genome resources of <em>Xanthomonas vasicola</em> strains from various hosts: Reference-guided chromosome and plasmid assemblies for enhanced pathogen genomics

This dataset comprises eleven whole-genome assemblies of Xanthomonas vasicola strains isolated from four economically important hosts: Eucalyptus spp., maize, sorghum, and sugarcane. Included in this dataset are FASTA files of the assembled chromosome and plasmid sequences for each strain. All the assemblies are chromosome-level, with the contigs assembled into a single chromosome using reference-guided scaffolding. The assemblies were generated from Illumina short-read data using a pipeline that included an initial de novo assembly performed with Unicycler, reference-guided scaffolding of chromosomes using Ragout, and iterative plasmid discovery and assembly using BLAST against the PLSDB database and Ragtag.