I have done an alignment of my sequences against the msu7 rice reference genome ((http://rice.uga.edu/pub/data/Eukaryotic_Projects/o_sativa/annotation_dbs/pseudomolecules/version_7.0/) and performed differential analysis. I saw numerous transcriptome based papers that performed KEGG analysis but im not sure how it was done. Now that i have a list of DEGs i would like to perform KEGG enrichment and pathway analysis but not sure on how to go about it. My gene id looks like this:

LOC_Os01g43480

LOC_Os08g09610

LOC_Os06g05660

Some websites mentioned that i'll need entrez_id to do KEGG analysis but to do that i had to convert my gene ids to RAP id using the RAP-DB id converter and then to entrez-id on DAVID website but i seem to be losing a lot of data during the conversion process. I have also tried assigning KO numbers to my genes using the reference .pep file on https://www.kegg.jp/kegg/mapper/assign_ko.html. Im not sure how to move forward from here. Any advice will be appreciated.

Thank you