Genome assembly of a Fusarium strain enriched from soil-plant systems:Raw sequence reads. Fusarium vanettenii strain:K1

The project aimed to screen for fungi that exhibit plastic degradation ability from a soil-plant system enriched with microplastics, and further utilise multiomic approaches (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) to decipher the underlying genetic repertoires that facilitate the degradation process. Fusarium vanettenii was one of target fungi that were isolated and experimental tests showed its ability to adhere to, colonise, decolourise and depolymerise polyurethane (PU), polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Moreover, the fungus, F. vanettenii exhibited the capability to grow on solid nutrient culture media with impanil solution and polyethylene glycol-400 as the sole carbon sources. Genome sequencing was also performed to understand its genetic functions and diversity.