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Pearl millet genome sequence provides a resource to improve agronomic traits in arid environments Rajeev K. Varshney1,*,&, Chengcheng Shi2,*, Mahendar Thudi1, Cedric Mariac3, Jason Wallace4, Peng Qi4, He Zhang2, Yusheng Zhao5, Xiyin Wang4, Abhishek Rathore1, Rakesh K. Srivastava1, Annapurna Chitikineni1, Guangyi Fan2, Prasad Bajaj1, Somashekhar Punnuri6, S. K. Gupta1, Hao Wang7, Yong Jiang5, Marie Couderc3, Mohan A. V. S. K. Katta1, Dev R. Paudel8, K. D. Mungra9, Wenbin Chen2, Karen R. Harris-Shultz10, Vanika Garg1, Neetin Desai11,12, Dadakhalandar Doddamani1, Ndjido Ardo Kane13, Joann A. Conner14, Arindam Ghatak11,15, Palak Chaturvedi11, Sabarinath Subramaniam16,17, Om Prakash Yadav18, Cécile Berthouly-Salazar3,19, Falalou Hamidou20,21, Jianping Wang8, Xinming Liang2, Jérémy Clotault3,22, Hari D. Upadhyaya1, Philippe Cubry3, Bénédicte Rhoné3,23, Mame Codou Gueye13, Ramanjulu Sunkar24, Christian Dupuy25, Francesca Sparvoli26, Shifeng Cheng2, R. S. Mahala27, Bharat Singh6, Rattan S. Yadav28, Eric Lyons16, Swapan K. Datta29, C. Tom Hash20, Katrien M. Devos4, Edward Buckler7,30, Jeffrey L. Bennetzen4, Andrew H. Paterson4, Peggy Ozias-Akins14, Stefania Grando1, Jun Wang2, Trilochan Mohapatra31, Wolfram Weckwerth11,32, Jochen C. Reif5, Xin Liu2,33,&, Yves Vigouroux3,22,&, Xun Xu2,33,& 1International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Telangana State, India 2BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China 3Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), Montpellier, France 4University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA 5Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany 6Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, Georgia, USA 7Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA 8University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA 9Junagadh Agricultural University, Jamnagar, Gujarat, India 10United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Tifton, Georgia, USA 11Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 12Amity University, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 13Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA), Dakar, Senegal 14University of Georgia, Tifton, Georgia, USA 15School of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, D.Y. Patil University, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 16University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA 17Phoenix Bioinformatics, Redwood City, California, USA 18Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) - Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India 19Laboratoire Mixte International Adaptation des Plantes et Microorganismes Associés aux Stress Environnementaux, Centre de Recherche de Bel Air, Dakar, Senegal 20ICRISAT Sahelian Center, Niamey, Niger 21Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, University Abdou Moumouni, Niamey, Niger 22University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France 23Laboratoire de biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France 24Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA 25Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAf), Paris, France 26CNR-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria, Milan, Italy 27Pioneer Hi-Bred Private Limited, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India 28Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion, UK 29Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India 30USDA-ARS, Ithaca, New York, USA 31Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, India 32Vienna Metabolomics Center (VIME), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 33BGI-Qingdao, Qingdao, China *Both authors contributed equally to this work &Correspondence should be addressed to RKV (r.k.varshney@cgiar.org), XL (liuxin@genomics.org.cn), YV (yves.vigouroux@ird.fr), XX (xuxun@genomics.org.cn) Click here for complete article.

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