Genome sequence of the brown rot fungal pathogen Monilinia laxa

Monilinia laxa (phylum Ascomycota) is a plant pathogen responsible for the brown rot blossom blight disease in stone fruit trees of the Rosaceae family, such as apricots. We report here the genome sequence of strain 8L of this species, which was assembled into 618 scaffolds, having a total size of 40.799 Mb and encoding 9,567 unique protein-coding genes.We acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness grants Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa 2013–2017, SEV-2012-0208, AGL2014-55287-C2, and BFU2015-67107, funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Additionally, T.G. acknowledges support from the CERCA Program/Generalitat de Catalunya, from Catalan Research Agency (AGAUR) grant SGR857, from a European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program grant under agreement ERC-2016-724173, and from Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions grant agreement H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014-642095