Genome resources for three modern cotton lines guide future breeding efforts

A Sreedasyam, JT Lovell, S Mamidi, S Khanal… - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is the key renewable fibre crop worldwide, yet its yield and
fibre quality show high variability due to genotype-specific traits and complex interactions …

Bridging molecular genetics and genomics for cotton fiber quality improvement

M Naoumkina, HJ Kim - Crop Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is the main source of natural fiber for the textile
industry. Cotton fibers are unicellular trichomes that emerge from the epidermal cells of the …

High-quality genome assembly and resequencing of modern cotton cultivars provide resources for crop improvement

Z Ma, Y Zhang, L Wu, G Zhang, Z Sun, Z Li, Y Jiang… - Nature Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Cotton produces natural fiber for the textile industry. The genetic effects of genomic structural
variations underlying agronomic traits remain unclear. Here, we generate two high-quality …

Genomic analyses in cotton identify signatures of selection and loci associated with fiber quality and yield traits

L Fang, Q Wang, Y Hu, Y Jia, J Chen, B Liu, Z Zhang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is the most important natural fiber crop in the world.
The overall genetic diversity among cultivated species of cotton and the genetic changes …

Recent progression and future perspectives in cotton genomic breeding

Z Yang, C Gao, Y Zhang, Q Yan, W Hu… - Journal of Integrative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Upland cotton is an important global cash crop for its long seed fibers and high edible oil
and protein content. Progress in cotton genomics promotes the advancement of cotton …

Resequencing core accessions of a pedigree identifies derivation of genomic segments and key agronomic trait loci during cotton improvement

X Ma, Z Wang, W Li, Y Zhang, X Zhou… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is the world's largest source of natural fibre and
dominates the global textile industry. Hybrid cotton varieties exhibit strong heterosis that …

Genomes for jeans: cotton genomics for engineering superior fiber

S Mansoor, AH Paterson - Trends in biotechnology, 2012 - cell.com
Twenty years ago, scientists predicted that better understanding of fiber development would
lead to novel ways to engineer superior cotton fiber. Advances in genetic resources, DNA …

Resequencing a core collection of upland cotton identifies genomic variation and loci influencing fiber quality and yield

Z Ma, S He, X Wang, J Sun, Y Zhang, G Zhang, L Wu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Upland cotton is the most important natural-fiber crop. The genomic variation of diverse
germplasms and alleles underpinning fiber quality and yield should be extensively explored …

The genomic basis of geographic differentiation and fiber improvement in cultivated cotton

S He, G Sun, X Geng, W Gong, P Dai, Y Jia, W Shi… - Nature Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Large-scale genomic surveys of crop germplasm are important for understanding the
genetic architecture of favorable traits. The genomic basis of geographic differentiation and …

Sequencing multiple cotton genomes reveals complex structures and lays foundation for breeding

Y Pan, F Meng, X Wang - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cotton is a major fiber plant, which provides raw materials for clothing, protecting humans
from the harsh environment of cold or hot weathers, enriching the culture and custom of …