AUTHOR=Loehrer Marco , Vogel Alexander , Huettel Bruno , Reinhardt Richard , Benes Vladimir , Duplessis Sébastien , Usadel Björn , Schaffrath Ulrich 

TITLE=On the current status of Phakopsora pachyrhizi genome sequencing

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science

VOLUME=Volume 5 - 2014

YEAR=2014

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2014.00377

DOI=10.3389/fpls.2014.00377

ISSN=1664-462X

ABSTRACT=Recent advances in the field of sequencing technologies and bioinformatics allow a more rapid access to genomes of non-model organisms at sinking costs. Accordingly, draft genomes of several economically important cereal rust fungi have been released in the last three years. Aside from the very recent flax rust and poplar rust draft assemblies there are no genomic data available for other dicot-infecting rust fungi. In this article we outline rust fungus sequencing efforts and comment on the current status of Phakopsora pachyrhizi (Asian soybean rust) genome sequencing.