TY - JOUR T1 - Twelve Platinum-Standard Reference Genomes Sequences (PSRefSeq) that complete the full range of genetic diversity of Asian rice JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/2019.12.29.888347 SP - 2019.12.29.888347 AU - Yong Zhou AU - Dmytro Chebotarov AU - Dave Kudrna AU - Victor Llaca AU - Seunghee Lee AU - Shanmugam Rajasekar AU - Nahed Mohammed AU - Noor Al-Bader AU - Chandler Sobel-Sorenson AU - Praveena Parakkal AU - Lady Johanna Arbelaez AU - Natalia Franco AU - Nickolai Alexandrov AU - N. Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton AU - Hei Leung AU - Ramil Mauleon AU - Mathias Lorieux AU - Andrea Zuccolo AU - Kenneth McNally AU - Jianwei Zhang AU - Rod A. Wing Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/12/31/2019.12.29.888347.abstract N2 - As the human population grows from 7.8 billion to 10 billion over the next 30 years, breeders must do everything possible to create crops that are highly productive and nutritious, while simultaneously having less of an environmental footprint. Rice will play a critical role in meeting this demand and thus, knowledge of the full repertoire of genetic diversity that exists in germplasm banks across the globe is required. To meet this demand, we describe the generation, validation and preliminary analyses of transposable element and long-range structural variation content of 12 near-gap-free reference genome sequences (RefSeqs) from representatives of 12 of 15 subpopulations of cultivated rice. When combined with 4 existing RefSeqs, that represent the 3 remaining rice subpopulations and the largest admixed population, this collection of 16 Platinum Standard RefSeqs (PSRefSeq) can be used as a pan-genome template to map resequencing data to detect virtually all standing natural variation that exists in the pan-cultivated rice genome. ER -