Pangenome References for Crop Improvement: A Review of Structural Variation Missed by Single References

Authors

  • Klementyna Erdman Centre for Crop Genomics, Mazowsze Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Siedlce, Poland Author
  • Evert-Jan Doornbos Department of Bioinformatics, Land van Cuijk Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Boxmeer, Netherlands Author
  • Kosta Hadzic-Mil Department of Plant Breeding, Banat Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Zrenjanin, Serbia Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22666553

Keywords:

Pangenome References for Crop Improvement; Agricultural biotechnology; Gene editing; Evidence synthesis; Biosafety regulation

Abstract

Pangenome References for Crop Improvement has moved quickly from a research idea to something a working breeding or
production programme can actually use, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current
evidence for pangenome references for crop improvement, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles,
with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and regulators are still largely working it out for
themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or
blanket avoidance.

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