Genome Sequence of the Cacao Pathogen Moniliophthora roreri Belonging to the Invasive A1B1 Mating Type: A Resource for Genomic Efforts in Cacao Pathology

Abstract

We sequenced the genome of the cacao pathogen Moniliophthora roreri MCA2952, whichharbors mating type A1B1 and is the first instance of the fungus identified in Mexico. Thisdraft genome consists of 59.68 Mb on 254 scaffolds; it is 95.8% complete based on theanalysis of Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (BUSCO v.2 with the Basidiomy-cota odb9 database), and it is by far the most contiguous genome generated for the genus Moniliophthora.