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June 1, 2021

Characterizing the pan-genome of maize with PacBio SMRT Sequencing

Author(s): Vierra, Michelle and Concepcion, Greg and Wenger, Aaron and Rank, David, and Peluso, Paul

Maize is an amazingly diverse crop. A study in 20051 demonstrated that half of the genome sequence and one-third of the gene content between two inbred lines of maize were not shared. This diversity, which is more than two orders of magnitude larger than the diversity found between humans and chimpanzees, highlights the inability of a single reference genome to represent the full pan-genome of maize and all its variants. Here we present and review several efforts to characterize the complete diversity within maize using the highly accurate long reads of PacBio Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing. These methods provide a framework for a pan-genomic approach that can be applied to studies of a wide variety of important crop species.

Organization: PacBio
Year: 2018

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