The improvement of fiber quality is an essential goal in cotton breeding. In our previous
studies, several quantitative trait loci (QTLs) contributing to improved fiber quality were …

Improving cotton fibre quality is a major breeding goal for Upland cotton in China. To
investigate the genetic mechanisms of fibre quality, a diverse panel of 403 Upland cotton …

Gossypium hirsutum races are believed to be potential reservoirs of desirable traits, which
can play crucial roles to overcome the existing narrow genetic base of modern Upland …

Gossypium hirsutum L. is the most important fiber crop worldwide and contributes to more
than 95% of global cotton production. Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is an effective …

Introduction The simultaneous improvement of fiber quality and yield for cotton is strongly
limited by the narrow genetic backgrounds of Gossypium hirsutum (Gh) and the negative …

Background Cotton is a significant economic crop that plays an indispensable role in many
domains. Gossypium hirsutum L. is the most important fiber crop worldwide and contributes …

Upland cotton makes an important contribution to natural fiber production worldwide. Given
the necessity to high quality fiber required in the textile industry, the genomic variation of …

Cotton genetic resources contain diverse economically important traits that can be used
widely in breeding approaches to create of high-yielding elite cultivars with superior fiber …

Detection of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for fiber yield and quality traits would be beneficial to
cotton breeding and to understanding the genetic architecture of these economic traits …

Cotton fiber quality traits are controlled by multiple genes of minor effect. Identification of
significant and stable quantitative trait loci (QTL) across environments and populations lays …