About the Authors

Robin A. Ohm

raohm@lbl.gov (RAO); ivgrigoriev@lbl.gov (IVG)

Affiliation United States Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Nicolas Feau

Affiliation Faculty of Forestry, Forest Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bernard Henrissat

Affiliation Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, France

Conrad L. Schoch

Affiliation NIH/NLM/NCBI, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Benjamin A. Horwitz

Affiliation Department of Biology, Technion - IIT, Haifa, Israel

Kerrie W. Barry

Affiliation United States Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Bradford J. Condon

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Alex C. Copeland

Affiliation United States Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Braham Dhillon

Affiliation Faculty of Forestry, Forest Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Fabian Glaser

Affiliation Bioinformatics Knowledge Unit, Technion - IIT, Haifa, Israel

Cedar N. Hesse

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Idit Kosti

Affiliation Department of Biology, Technion - IIT, Haifa, Israel

Kurt LaButti

Affiliation United States Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Erika A. Lindquist

Affiliation United States Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Susan Lucas

Affiliation United States Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Asaf A. Salamov

Affiliation United States Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Rosie E. Bradshaw

Affiliation Institute of Molecular BioSciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Lynda Ciuffetti

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Richard C. Hamelin

Affiliations Faculty of Forestry, Forest Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Ste-Foy, Quebec, Canada

Gert H. J. Kema

Affiliation Plant Research International, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Christopher Lawrence

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute & Department of Biological Sciences, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

James A. Scott

Affiliation Division of Occupational & Environmental Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Joseph W. Spatafora

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

B. Gillian Turgeon

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Pierre J. G. M. de Wit

Affiliation Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Shaobin Zhong

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America

Stephen B. Goodwin

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Igor V. Grigoriev

raohm@lbl.gov (RAO); ivgrigoriev@lbl.gov (IVG)

Affiliation United States Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RAO REB LC SBG IVG RCH GHJK CL JAS JWS BGT PJGMDW SZ. Performed the experiments: RAO REB BJC BD NF FG BH BAH IK AAS CLS BGT CNH. Analyzed the data: RAO REB BJC BD NF FG BH BAH IK AAS CLS BGT ACC KL EAL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KWB SL. Wrote the paper: RAO REB NF SBG IVG BH BAH CLS BGT ACC. Sequenced and assembled genome(s) and/or ESTs: KWB ACC BD CNH KL EAL SL. Annotated genome(s): CNH RAO.