… in Gossypium (“cotton fiber”). We have used fiber development in Gossypium as a system
to understand how morphology can rapidly evolve. Fiber has undergone considerable …

… diploids, representing the first stage in cotton fiber development from a wild ancestor. A …
developing ovule, or alternatively, elongation is prolonged in the complementary portions. …

… of overlapping developmental stages. Cotton fibers are easily separated from the developing
seed… Given that cotton fibers are expendable for plant growth, there is unrestricted ability to …

… the development of cotton fibers. While there are many reports of high temperature stress on
cotton plant growth, final fiber … As the duration of the treatment was prolonged (Fig. 4-A), the …

… This prolonged fixation and dehydration process produced excellent preservation and …
shaping early development of cotton fibers. However, it seems that developmental alterations that …

… fiber cells. Taken together with the observation that ethylene acts as a positive regulator for
cotton fiber … analysis of genes involved in cotton fiber development at the transcriptome level …

… accessions from two developmental time points revealed that … any one stage during cotton
fiber development. Among these… process has prolonged the duration of fiber elongation in …

… This identified prolonged fiber elongation in Gb cotton is consistent with prior reports [10].
Plant cell wall thickening usually is the effect of secondary cell wall biosynthesis. …

… Growth Parameters of Cycled Fibers When fibers developing in vitro were exposed to …
substantial fiber elongation to occur was prolonged as the low temperature in the cycle decreased. …

… transcriptome during turgor-driven cell expansion and elongation reflects the metabolic
activity required to sustain the prolonged exaggerated growth of developing fibers, and provides …