The Annotation of Fusarium graminearum (PH-1) Version 5.0

The ascomycete fungus Fusarium graminearum is one of several commonly found pathogenic species identified on flowering wheat spikes that cause yield losses and significant mycotoxin contamination of grain in the UK, Europe, the Americas, Asia and elsewhere. We report an update to the PH-1 reference genome and significant improvement to the annotation (14,145 genes) to adopt a new gene naming schema, include legacy annotation gene ID’s, and re-annotate genes with a focus upon those lacking an ATG as a start codon. A new prediction of the secretome has resulted in an increased cohort of gene predictions (n = 870) much more in line with those recently identified in other fungal pathogens species, of which 97 are predicted to be GPI-anchored. We also used effectorP to predict a sub-set of secreted effector proteins (n = 183), and updated the gene models with 5,694 5’ and 5,036 3’ UTR annotations.