Volume 32, No 10, Oct 2022

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 32 Issue 10, October 2022: 867-868

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

The rice pangenome branches out

Kenneth M. Olsen^*

Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
Correspondence: Kenneth M. Olsen(kolsen@wustl.edu)

The power of genome-enabled research depends not only on the quality of individual genome assemblies, but also the extent to which they collectively represent the natural variation of a study system. In a recent Cell Research paper, Shang et al. make an important advance in our understanding of rice genomes with the release of the first rice ‘super-pangenome’, which encompasses the pangenome of domesticated Asian rice plus three closely related species.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-022-00699-7

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