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=5

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=<p>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 3 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 <italic>Phakopsora pachyrhizi</italic> (Asian soybean rust) genome sequencing.</p>