Structural variants in the barley genome

The objectives of our study were to (i) benchmark SV callers and their combinations with respect to their sensitivity and precision to detect SV in the barley genome using simulated short-read sequencing data, (ii) characterize the occurrence and distribution of SV in the genomes of 23 barley inbreds that are the parents of the double round robin population, (iii) quantify the association of SV with transcript abundance, and (iv) evaluate the use of SV for the prediction of phenotypic characters.