Nikki T Pham

TL;DR: This work demonstrates how inexpensive next-generation sequencing can be applied to generate a high-density catalog of mutations and reveals the usefulness of the resource for efficient, cost-effective identification of genes conferring specific phenotypes.

TL;DR: The high quality, de novo assembly of the KitaakeX genome will serve as a useful reference genome for rice and will accelerate functional genomics studies of rice and other species.

TL;DR: The high-quality genome of the model rice plant KitaakeX will accelerate rice functional genomics and identify 331,335 genomic variations between KitakeX and Nipponbare (ssp. japonica), and 2,785,991 variations betweenKitaake X and Zhenshan97 (SSp. indica).

TL;DR: A fast-neutron-induced mutant population in the model rice cultivar Kitaake is generated and an inversion affecting a single gene is identified as the causative mutation for the short-grain phenotype in one mutant line with a small segregating population, revealing the usefulness of the resource for efficient identification of genes conferring specific phenotypes.