Fusarium fujikuroi Genome sequencing and assembly. Fusarium

The Fusarium fujikuroi species complex (FFSC) is a sub-generic grouping within the fungal genus Fusarium that includes multiple species that are of economic and/or health concerns because they can cause disease on crop plants and/or they can contaminate infected crop with mycotoxins, such as fumonisins, beauvericin, fusarins, fusaric acid, and moniliformin. DNA sequence-based phylogenetic analyses have further divided FFSC into three monophyletic lineages known as the African, Asian and American clades. Some members of the FFSC also produce plant hormones (e.g., auxins, gibberellins), and most members either produce or have the gene that confer production of the pigments bikaverin and carotenoids.