Chromosome-Level Assemblies for the Pine Pitch Canker Pathogen .

The pine pitch canker pathogen, , is globally regarded as one of the most important threats to commercial pine-based forestry. Although genome sequences of this fungus are available, these remain highly fragmented or structurally ill-defined. Our overall goal was to provide high-quality assemblies for two notable strains of , and to characterize these in terms of coding content, repetitiveness and the position of telomeres and centromeres.