Stagnated crop improvement has raised questions of whether and how current crop cultivars
can be further improved. Genes are the core determinants of performance of all cultivars …

Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is a leading textile crop in the world, generating an annual
economic benefit of over hundred billion USD. However, few genes controlling fiber quality …

Accurate phenotype prediction of quantitative traits is paramount to enhanced plant research
and breeding. Here, we report the accurate prediction of cotton fiber length, a typical …

Interspecific breeding in cotton takes advantage of genetic recombination among desirable
genes from different parental lines. However, the expression new alleles (ENAs) from …

Fiber length is an important determinant of fiber quality, and it is a quantitative multi-genic
trait. Identifying genes associated with fiber length is of great importance for efforts to …

Background Improving cotton fiber length without reducing yield is one of the major goals of
cotton breeding. However, genetic improvement of cotton fiber length by breeding has been …

In an earlier advanced‐backcross quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis of an interspecific
Gossypium hirsutum L.× Gossypium barbadense L. population, 28 fiber length QTLs were …

Key message The fiber length-related qFL-A12-5 identified in CSSLs introgressed from
Gossypium barbadense into Gossypium hirsutum was fine-mapped to an 18.8 kb region on …

Fiber length is one of the most important fiber quality traits in Upland cotton (Gossypium
hirsutum L.), the most important fiber crop, and its improvement has been impeded in part by …

Fiber length (FL) is an important fiber quality trait in cotton. Although many fiber quality
quantitative trait loci (QTL) responsible for FL have been identified, most cannot be applied …