Rice Pan-genome Array (RPGA): an efficient genotyping solution for pan- genome-based accelerated crop improvement in rice Anurag Daware 1 , Ankit Malik 2 , Rishi Srivastava 1 , Durdam Das 1 , Ranjith K. Ellur 2 , Ashok K. Singh 2 , Akhilesh K. Tyagi 3 , Swarup K. Parida 1* 1 National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India 2 Division of Genetics, Rice Section, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi 110012, India 3 Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi 110021, India *Corresponding authors Prof. Akhilesh K. Tyagi Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi 110021, India E-mail: akhilesh@genomeindia.org Phone: 91-11-26742267; Fax: 91-11-26741759 Dr. Swarup K. Parida National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi - 110067, India. E-mail: swarup@nipgr.ac.in ; swarupdbt@gmail.com Phone: 91-11-26735228; Fax: 91-11-26741658 Running Title: Rice Pan-genome Array (RPGA) Word Count: Number of Figures: 9 Number Tables: 00 . CC-BY-ND 4.0 International license available under a (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted January 21, 2022. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.19.476884 doi: bioRxiv preprint