The downy mildew pathogen H. arabidopsidis and A. laibachii are both pathogens of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. While both show similar infection structures within the host, A. laibachii releases motile zoospores from asexual spores and sexual oospores, while H. arabidopsidis lacks all motile stages. Both pathogens are regularly found to co-infect plants and sporulate on the same leaf. A remarkable consequence of infection by Albugo sp. is enhanced host plant susceptibility to other parasites to which the host is resistant in the absence of Albugo infection, and also impairment of cell death mechanisms. The A. laibachii Nc14 genome was sequenced using Illumina 76-bp paired reads with ~240-fold coverage and assembled via an assembly pipeline, which used Velvet as primary assembler and Minimus as meta-assembler.

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