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Research Project: Developing Biotechnologies to Improve Pest and Pathogen Resistance, Yield, and Quality in Sugarbeet

Location: Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory

Title: An assembly of genomic sequences of the sugar beet root maggot Tetanops myopaeformis, TpSBRM_v1.0

Author
item ALKHAROUF, NADIM - Towson University
item Chu, Chenggen
item Klink, Vincent

Submitted to: Data in Brief
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/1/2024
Publication Date: 3/6/2024
Citation: Alkharouf, N., Chu, C.N., Klink, V.P. 2024. An assembly of genomic sequences of the sugar beet root maggot Tetanops myopaeformis, TpSBRM_v1.0. Data in Brief. Article e110298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.110298.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.110298

Interpretive Summary: DNA from the agriculturally important sugar beet root maggot (SBRM), Tetanops myopaeformis insect has been isolated. The DNA has been sequenced. The sequenced DNA has allowed for the sequence data to be organized into a draft genome. The draft genome is designated as TpSBRM_v1.0 for the first interpretation of the genome sequence for Tetanops myopaeformis (Tp) sugar beet root maggot (SBRM), TpSBRM_1.0. The sequence should help aid in devising methods to control the infection of sugar beet by SBRM.

Technical Abstract: The sugar beet root maggot (SBRM), Tetanops myopaeformis (von Röder), is a devastating pathogen of sugar beet (SB), Beta vulgaris, ssp vulgaris (B. vulgaris), an important food crop, while also being one of only two plants globally from which sugar is widely produced, and accounting for 35% of global raw sugar with an annual farm value of $3 billion in the United States alone. SBRM is the most devastating pathogen of sugarbeet in North America. The limited natural resistance of B. vulgaris necessitates an understanding of the SBRM genome to facilitate generating knowledge of its basic biology, including the interaction between the pathogen and its host(s). Presented is the de novo assembled draft genome sequence of T. myopaeformis isolated from field-grown B. vulgaris in North Dakota, USA. The SBRM genome sequence TmSBRM_v1.0 will also be valuable for molecular genetic marker development to facilitate host resistance gene identification and knowledge,including SB polygalacturonase inhibiting protein (PGIP), and development of new control strategies for this pathogen, relationship to model genetic organisms like Drosophila melanogaster and aid in agronomic improvement of sugar beet for stakeholders while also providing information on the relationship between the SBRM and climate change.