SorghumBase release 5 is expected in November 2022. This release will feature 10 sorghum genomes from the Carbon-Partitioning Nested Association Mapping (CP-NAM) panel: Chinese Amber [PI 22913], Grassl [PI 154844], Leoti [PI 586454], PI 229841, PI 297155, PI 329311, PI 506069, PI 510757, PI 655972, and Rio [PI 563295]. The CP-NAM population panel was developed and publicly released as a key genetic resource for the characterization and improvement of sorghum (Boatwright et al., 2021, 2022; Kumar et al., 2022).
This release will also include nearly 44 new million genetic variants including ~38 M SNPs and ~5 M indels that were genotyped in the 400 Sorghum Association Panel (SAP) via whole-genome sequencing (WGS) by Lucas Boatwright and collaborators (2021).
In addition, a total of 84 new synteny maps including those between each of the 28 sorghum genomes in SorghumBase and maize B73 v5 or Japonica rice IRGSPv1, and the sorghum BTx623 reference and each of the other 27 sorghum varieties. Plus whole-genome alignments between the sorghum BTx623 reference, RTx430, RTx436, Tx2783, and Rio [PI 651496], and each of the anchors for orthologous species: Arabidopsis TAIR10, Japonica rice IRGSPv1, and maize B73 v5.
As in every release, there will be a modest increase in relevant sorghum papers in our Publications database, and a subset of them is being featured in our Highlighted Papers section.