SorghumBase release 2 is out with 13 new sorghum genomes
SorghumBase Team
12 November 2021
The release provides access to 13 new sorghum varieties (Tao et al, 2021), for a total of 18 sorghum reference genomes, and 6 other species to support phylogenetic analyses, and cross-species comparisons.
Sorghum bicolor RTx430, a grain sorghum inbred commonly used as pollinator in hybrid production, whose genome is known to be rich in repeats, was assembled and annotated by (Deschamps et al. 2018).
