A research group led by Prof. Li Zhikang at the Institute of Crop Sciences of CAAS has completed the study on genome variation of 3,010 Asian cultivated rice samples, making it the largest plant genome sequencing project in the world so far. Li's group also built the world's first near-complete, high-quality Asian cultivated rice pan-genome and deeply analyzed the genetic diversity of Asia cultivated rice genome. Related data and application platforms have been established.

Map-to-pan strategy for rice pan-genome analyses