Anguina tritici isolate:New Delhi | breed:clade IV Genome sequencing and assembly. Anguina tritici isolate:New Delhi | breed:clade IV

Anguina tritici has the distinction of being the first plant parasitic nematode, to be described in the literature, in the year 1743. The nematode has been classified in clade IV of the phylum Nematoda. It is an aerial plant parasitic nematode and causes the earcockle (seed gall) and tundu disease of wheat and rye. The nematode has been reported to survive in anhydrobioticcondition for as long as 32 years, in the wheat seed galls. These unique features made us sequence the genome of this nematode. For the first time ever, we reported the draft genome of A. tritici, using Illumina MiSeq platform. It has an estimated size of 164 MB, with 39,965 protein-coding genes at 60-fold coverage, and a GC content of 38%.