10k-level integrated rice database shows power for exploiting rare variants.

Rice is one of the most important staple crops, feeding half of the world's population. In the 1990s, rice became a model plant to study monocots due to its relatively small genome and efficient transformation system (Izawa and Shimamoto 1996). Rice is the first crop with sequenced and assembled reference genome (Wang and Han 2022), and rice genes have been cloned via the map-based cloning system, showing that key regulators in rice play critical roles in determining important agronomic traits (Chen et al. 2022). This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.