“…Grasses with a reference genome, such as rice (International Rice Genome Sequencing Project and Sasaki, 2005), maize (Schnable et al, 2009), wheat (IWGSC et al, 2018), and miscanthus (Miscanthus sinensis) (Kim et al, 2014; Tsuruta et al, 2017), even sugarcane with an allele-defined genome of Saccharum spontaneum (Zhang et al, 2018) or a monoploid sequence reference for sugarcane (Garsmeur et al, 2018) and sorghum (McCormick et al, 2018), are commonly used as references for studies on the sugarcane genome (Thirugnanasambandam et al, 2018; Wang et al, 2021; Babu et al, 2022, Mancini et al, 2018; Garsmeur et al, 2018; Zhang et al, 2018, Zhang et al, 2022 and Healey et al, 2024). Recently, a highly representative genome of the R570 hybrid variety was presented to the scientific community (Healey et al, 2024).…”