1 University of Arizona, Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, Arizona, 85750, USA. rwing@mail.arizona.edu.
2 International Rice Research Institute, TT Chang Genetic Resources Center, Los Baños, Laguna, 4031, Philippines. rwing@mail.arizona.edu.
A rapid and cost-effective approach has been developed to harvest and map the dispensable genome, that is, population-level natural sequence variation within a species that is not present in static genome assemblies.