“…The multiple sequence alignments (MSA) were computed using famsa (Deorowicz et al, 2016) from pan-genome relationships derived from the software package Pandagma (Cannon, 2023), which uses an all-vs-all approach to align the canonical transcripts in a given pan-gene group. Pandagma generated the MSA on 51 maize reference genomes including two versions of B73 (Hufford et al, 2021;Jiao et al, 2017), a set of 25 diverse maize lines called the Nested Association Mapping (NAM) panel (Hufford et al, 2021), 12 lines used in Chinese breeding programs (Wang et al, 2023), 4 European lines (Haberer et al, 2020), and an additional set of 8 high-quality maize lines available at MaizeGDB. The maize genome Zm-B73-REFERENCE-NAM-5.0 is used as the reference genome and the B73v5 annotation set contains 39,755 gene models and 75,539 transcripts.…”