RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Gene mapping of nine agronomic traits and genome assembly by resequencing a foxtail millet RIL population JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 069625 DO 10.1101/069625 A1 Xuemei Ni A1 Qiuju Xia A1 Houbao Zhang A1 Shu Cheng A1 Hui Li A1 Guangyu Fan A1 Tao Guo A1 Ping Huang A1 Haitao Xiang A1 Qingchun Chen A1 Ning Li A1 Hongfeng Zou A1 Xuemei Cai A1 Xuejing Lei A1 Xiaoming Wang A1 Chengshu Zhou A1 Zhihai Zhao A1 Gengyun Zhang A1 Zhiwu Quan YR 2016 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/08/15/069625.abstract AB Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) provides food and fodder in semi-arid regions and infertile land. Resequencing of 184 foxtail millet recombinant inbred lines (RILs) was carried out to aid essential research on foxtail millet improvement. Bin map were constructed based on the RILs’ recombination data. By anchoring some unseated scaffolds and filling gaps, we update two original millet reference genomes Zhanggu and Yugu to produce second editions. Gene mapping of nine agronomic traits were done based on this RIL population. The genome resequencing and QTL mapping provided important tools for foxtail millet research and breeding. Resequencing of the RILs could also provide an effective way for high quantity genome assembly and gene identification.