2025/12/15 by Santiago Emil A. Joson, Josh P. Clevenger, Justin N. Vaughn +2 · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food #Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity #Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
paper · pdf · doi:10.1094/phytofr-12-25-0138-a
openalex publication_date 2025/12/15 · openalex created_date 2025/12/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Aspergillus flavus contaminates crops by producing highly carcinogenic aflatoxins, posing significant economic and public health risks across the globe. Here, we report the complete mitochondrial genome of A. flavus AF13, a highly stress-tolerant and aflatoxigenic strain with an existing reference-grade chromosome-level nuclear genome assembly. The circular mitogenome is 29,187 bp with a GC content of 26.1%, encoding 14 protein-coding genes, 27 transfer RNA genes, and 2 ribosomal RNA genes. Pairwise alignment showed that the AF13 mitogenome had an average identity of 99.88% to 11 other A. flavus mitogenomes. The A. flavus AF13 mitogenome will be a valuable resource for respiration metabolism and fungicide resistance studies. [Formula: see text] Copyright © 2026 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license .