The gap-free rice genomes provide insights for centromere structure and function exploration and graph-based pan-genome construction

We sincerely thank 1) Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. for sequencing of MH63, 520 2) Wuhan Frasergen Bioinformatics Co., Ltd. for sequencing of ZS97 and 3) Dr. 521 Jiming Jiang at MSU for his critical comments and constructive suggestions on our 522 centromere analyses.