“…To date, the whole genomes of at least seven P. expansum strains, from China, Israel, Spain, and the United States, have been sequenced (Ballester et al, 2015;Li et al, 2015;Wu et al, 2019;Yang et al, 2014;Yin et al, 2017;Yu et al, 2014;). According to released genome information, the genome size of P. expansum is about 33 MB, which is larger than the genomes of two other important postharvest pathogens, Penicillium italicum (about 30 MB) and Penicillium digitatum (about 26 MB) (Ballester et al, 2015;Julca, Droby, Sela, Marcet-Houben, & Gabaldón, 2015).…”