Complete Telomere-to-telomere Assemblies of Two Sorghum Genomes to Guide Biological Discovery

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Specialty Biology

Date 2024 Jun 17

PMID 38882488

Authors

Chuanzheng Wei

Lei Gao

Ruixue Xiao

Yanbo Wang

Bingru Chen

Wenhui Zou

Jihong Li

Emma Mace

David Jordan

Yongfu Tao

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Abstract

The assembly of two sorghum T2T genomes corrected the assembly errors in the current reference, uncovered centromere variation, boosted functional genomics research, and accelerated sorghum improvement.

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