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 …

A preliminary analysis of genome structure and composition in Gossypium hirsutum

W Guo, C Cai, C Wang, L Zhao, L Wang, T Zhang - BMC genomics, 2008 - Springer
Background Upland cotton has the highest yield, and accounts for> 95% of world cotton
production. Decoding upland cotton genomes will undoubtedly provide the ultimate …

Inter-Specific Hybridization in Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) for Crop Improvement

M Anwar, MZ Iqbal, AA Abro, S Memon, LA Bhutto… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Interspecific hybridization has contributed significantly to land diversity, species evolution,
and crops' domestication, including upland cotton, the cultivated form of Gossypium …

The Gossypium anomalum genome as a resource for cotton improvement and evolutionary analysis of hybrid incompatibility

CE Grover, D Yuan, MA Arick, ER Miller, G Hu… - G3, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cotton is an important crop that has been the beneficiary of multiple genome sequencing
efforts, including diverse representatives of wild species for germplasm development …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative analysis of genome sequences of the two cultivated tetraploid cottons, Gossypium hirsutum (L.) and G. barbadense (L.)

Q Meng, J Gu, Z Xu, J Zhang, J Tang, A Wang… - Industrial Crops and …, 2023 - Elsevier
With innovations in sequencing technology and the progress of high-performance
computing systems, it is now relatively straightforward to sequence and assemble complex …

[HTML][HTML] Distribution and evolution of cotton fiber development genes in the fibreless Gossypium raimondii genome

Z Xu, J Yu, RJ Kohel, RG Percy, WD Beavis, D Main… - Genomics, 2015 - Elsevier
Cotton fiber represents the largest single cell in plants and they serve as models to study cell
development. This study investigated the distribution and evolution of fiber Unigenes …

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 …

Polyploidization Altered Gene Functions in Cotton (Gossypium spp.)

Z Xu, JZ Yu, J Cho, J Yu, RJ Kohel, RG Percy - PLoS One, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is an important crop plant that is widely grown to produce both
natural textile fibers and cottonseed oil. Cotton fibers, the economically more important …

A Long‐Read Transcriptome Assembly of Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) and Intraspecific Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Discovery

H Ashrafi, AM Hulse‐Kemp, F Wang, SS Yang… - The plant …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) has a narrow germplasm base, which constrains
marker development and hampers intraspecific breeding. A pressing need exists for high …

Construction of a plant-transformation-competent BIBAC library and genome sequence analysis of polyploid Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutumL.)

MK Lee, Y Zhang, M Zhang, M Goebel, HJ Kim… - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
Background Cotton, one of the world's leading crops, is important to the world's textile and
energy industries, and is a model species for studies of plant polyploidization, cellulose …