Microarrays, complexity reduction sequencing (RADseq/GBS), and targeted sequencing are popular tools for precision crop improvement because they are accurate, cheap, and reproducible. However, these methods are underpowered to detect rare and minor population-specific alleles. Whole genome sequencing is a more powerful, but also more expensive, approach for detecting such alleles for precision crop improvement.

To make precision crop improvement faster and more accessible, the Clevenger Lab has developed a low-coverage whole genome sequencing approach that offers the best of both worlds: powerful, whole-genome