“…Given that traditional breeding can elicit substantial genetic changes during the development of new crop cultivars, and spontaneously-derived genetic variation is prevalent in all species, it is not surprising that genetic variation between traditionally-bred cultivars of the same species can be immense. For example, between approximately 25,000 to 9.8 million SNVs and 1,400 to 1.4 million indels have been observed between individuals of different cultivars/accessions of soybean (Lam et al, 2010;Yadav et al, 2015;Anderson et al, 2016), cotton (Li, Manghwar, et al, 2019), sweet cherry (Xanthopoulou et al, 2020), maize (Sun et al, 2018), rice (e.g., Subbaiyan et al, 2012;Kawakatsu et al, 2013;Fu et al, 2016;Qin et al, 2018;Wang, Mauleon, et al, 2018), and tomato (Causse et al, 2013), respectively (Table 1). Indeed, SNVs have been found to be present on average every 61-540 bp in maize, wheat, soybean, B. oleracea and rice cultivars (Ching et al, 2002;Somers et al, 2003;Van et al, 2005;Subbaiyan et al, 2012;Agnieska et al, 2016;Fu et al, 2016;Golicz et al, 2016;Sun et al, 2018), while indels have been estimated to occur every 126-900 bp in maize lines (Ching et al, 2002;Sun et al, 2018).…”