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It has been suggested that the soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) currently cultivated in commercial agriculture was domesticated from the wild soybean (G. soja Sieb. & Zucc.) in China approximately 5,000 years ago. Because of its high protein and oil content, cultivated soybean has become a major economic crop by providing 69% and 30% of the world's plant protein and oil. Soybean breeders have made considerable efforts to develop elite varieties that can meet this ever-increasing demand. However, over the last century , advances in soybean breeding have progressed slowly. One of the major reasons is the genetic bottlenecks caused by the domestication practice of using seeds from only a small number of plants with desirable traits to propagate each new generation during introduction and improvement [1]. Well-established genome sequences and a better understanding of the underlying genetic bases of ag-ronomically important traits will expedite the progress of marker-assisted breeding programs for soybean. At the beginning of 2010, the first assembled reference genome of a soybean cultivar, Williams 82, was released [2]. This draft genome sequence demonstrated that soybean contains 20 chromosomes, and approximately 60% of the genome was occupied by repetitive DNA. The genome consisted of 46,430 predicted protein-coding genes, 78% of which were located at the end of a chromosome. Moreover, the genome sequence revealed that this genome experienced two rounds of whole-genome duplication, one 59 million years ago and the other 13 million years ago, which resulted in the presence of nearly 75% of genes in multiple copies. This made the diploid soybean more like an ancient palae-opolyploid. This reference genome is a milestone of soybean genomics. It ushered in the era of soybean functional genomics. Soon after the publication of the Williams 82 reference genome, Kim et al. [3] published the genome sequence of a wild soybean (G. soja var. IT182932), generated using two MPS platforms: Illumina-GA and GS-FLX. A difference of approximately 0.31% was found between the genomes of G. max and G. soja, which included 2.5 Mb of substituted bases and 406 kb of small insertions/deletions. In addition, they detected 32.4 Mb of large deletions and 8.3 Mb of novel sequence contigs in the G. soja genome. Recently, significant work on the pan-genome of G. soja was carried out by sequencing and de novo assembling seven phyloge-netically and geographically representative accessions [4]. This pan-genome covered 94% of the genes of Glycine max. Nearly half …

Genomics progress will facilitate molecular breeding in soybean