Aspergillus flavus strain:WRRL1519 Genome sequencing and assembly

Aflatoxins are fungal secondary metabolites that often contaminate foodstuffs and crops. Aspergillus flavus is the major aflatoxin producing species. Use of non-aflatoxigenic strains of A. flavus to competitively exclude aflatoxin-producing strains has emerged as one of the management practices for reducing aflatoxin contamination, and has led to commercially registered products. The non-aflatoxigenic A. flavus strain WRRL1519 (labelled as M65) was sequenced to define the characteristics of the strain at the genomic level.