Pangenomes for Crop Plants –
What, Why, and How
Kevin Fengler,
Corteva Agriscience
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Introduction (2 min.)
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The two-ingredient reference assembly cookbook (3 minutes)
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“They’ve become so good that just these two technologies alone are all you need to generate end-to-end, chromosome-scale, nearly gapless assembly for most crop genomes.”
Four reasons to use HiFi sequencing (7 minutes)
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“PacBio HiFi assemblies are extremely accurate.”
Highlights and wisdom from many genome assemblies (15 minutes)
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“When you can build a robust pangenome for a given crop so quickly… you can start to look for chromosome-scale variation and presence/absence variation.”
From pangenome discovery to new applications (4 minutes)
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“We’re not doing these pangenome studies for nothing. We are trying to do this for practical reasons.”