A complete assembly of the rice Nipponbare reference genome

Authors: Lianguang Shang, Wenchuang He, Tianyi Wang, Yingxue Yang, Qiang Xu, Xianjia Zhao, Longbo Yang, Hong Zhang, Xiaoxia Li, Yang Lv, Wu Chen, Shuo Cao, Xianmeng Wang, Bin Zhang, Xiangpei Liu, Xiao-Man Yu, Huiying He, Wei Hua, Yue Leng, Chuanlin Shi, Mingliang Guo, Zhipeng Zhang, Bintao Zhang, Qiaoling Yuan, Hongge Qian, Xinglan Cao, Yan Cui, Qianqian Zhang, Xiaofan Dai, Congcong Liu, Longbiao Guo, Yongfeng Zhou, Xiaoming Zheng, Jue Ruan, Zhukuan Cheng, Weihua Pan, Qian Qian - Molecular Plant 2023 cited by 194

In 2005, the current commonly used rice reference genome (Oryza sativa ssp. japonica cv. Nipponbare) was initially released by the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project (International Rice Genome Sequencing Project, 2005). Thereafter, the reference genome was further updated in 2013 with improved genome assembly (IRGSP-1.0) and gene annotations (MSU7, RAP-DB) (Kawahara et al., 2013; Sakai et al., 2013). In the past 10 years, this reference has been serving as one of the most important genetic resources for subsequent rice functional genomics efforts.