Sorghum bicolor inbred variety ‘BTx623’ has short stature and an early maturing genotype and is used primarily to produce grain sorghum hybrids. It is a line susceptible to sugarcane aphid and sensitive to low nitrogen, and therefore often used in functional comparative studies.
A new chromosome-scale assembly of the sorghum genome was generated by combining Nanopore sequencing with DLS optical mapping. In this paper, published in this week’s Nature Communications issue, Oxford Nanopore sequences generated on a MinION sequencer and combined them with
