Genome Sequence Resource for Colletotrichum scovillei, Causing Anthracnose Disease of Chili.

Colletotrichum species cause anthracnose disease on the economically important spice crop chili. 24 Colletotrichum species are known to infect chili and cause anthracnose. C. scovillei belongs to the C. acutatum species complex, and it shows greater aggressiveness than other species, particularly in the case of inoculation onto the non-wounded fruits of chili plants. The current work introduces an initial Illumina-Nanopore hybrid draft genome for the C. scovillei strain TJNH1 together with the related annotations. Knowledge of this genome sequences provides an important reference genome of C. scovillei and will further help understand the pathogenic mechanism of C.scovillei to plant.