Oryza sativa (circum-Aus2 var. Natel Boro) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Oryza sativa (circum-Aus2 var. Natel Boro)

Asian cultivated rice is a staple food for half of the world population. With a genome size of ~390 Mb (n=12), rice has the smallest genome among the domesticated cereals, making it particularly amenable to genomic studies. In 2020, a reanalysis of the population structure analysis showed that rice could be subdivided into a total of 15 subpopulations. Then 16 rice cultivar varieties were selected based on genetic diversity and origin that could represent the 15 subpopulations and the largest admixed population. The collection of 16 Platinum Standard RefSeqs (PSRefSeq) can be used as a template to detect virtually all standing natural variation that exists in the pan-genome of cultivated Asian rice. Oryza sativa IRGC 127652 (aus variety cv. NATEL BORO::IRGC 34749-1) is selected as the representative of cA2 subpopulation.

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