Volvariella volvacea V23 strain:V23-1 Genome sequencing and assembly

Volvariella volvacea is one of most important commercial mushroom in the world and widely cultivated in southeastern Asia. This mushroom not only provides the high quality food for the human, but also is the straw rotting fungus with ability to digest the agricultural wastes. Twenty single spore isolates were obtained by spreading a suspension of basidiospores of strain V23 on Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA) plates and confirmed as pure homokaryons by an inability to form sporophores under conditions that promoted fruit body formation by the dikaryotic parent. One of these, V23-1, was selected at random and used for genome sequencing.