1) Today's been a hell of a day for plant #pangenomes.
In nature.com/articles/s4158… Walkowiak et al analyze up to 16 wheat cultivars to report on the global variation pool accessible to modern breeding
2) In nature.com/articles/s4158… Jayakodi et al analyze 20 + 300 barley varieties, including the reference Morex, to find presence-absence and inversions in the context of breeding.
3) In academic.oup.com/genetics/advan… Noshay et al study the effect of tranposon element polymorphisms on gene expression in maize, finding that genes with TE events in accessible chromatine regions are associated with higher expression, suggesting that these TEs contribute novel CREs