TY - JOUR T1 - Genome sequence of the model rice variety KitaakeX JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/653089 SP - 653089 AU - Rashmi Jain AU - Jerry Jenkins AU - Shengqiang Shu AU - Mawsheng Chern AU - Joel A. Martin AU - Dario Copetti AU - Phat Q. Duong AU - Nikki T. Pham AU - David A. Kudrna AU - Jayson Talag AU - Wendy S. Schackwitz AU - Anna M. Lipzen AU - David Dilworth AU - Diane Bauer AU - Jane Grimwood AU - Catherine R. Nelson AU - Feng Xing AU - Weibo Xie AU - Kerrie W. Barry AU - Rod A. Wing AU - Jeremy Schmutz AU - Guotian Li AU - Pamela C. Ronald Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/05/30/653089.abstract N2 - Here, we report the de novo genome sequencing and analysis of Oryza sativa ssp. japonica variety KitaakeX, a Kitaake plant carrying the rice XA21 immune receptor. Our KitaakeX sequence assembly contains 377.6 Mb, consisting of 33 scaffolds (476 contigs) with a contig N50 of 1.4 Mb. Complementing the assembly are detailed gene annotations of 35,594 protein coding genes. We identified 331,335 genomic variations between KitaakeX and Nipponbare (ssp. japonica), and 2,785,991 variations between KitaakeX and Zhenshan97 (ssp. indica). We also compared Kitaake resequencing reads to the KitaakeX assembly and identified 219 small variations. The high-quality genome of the model rice plant KitaakeX will accelerate rice functional genomics. ER -