[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …, 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 …

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 …

Asymmetric subgenome selection and cis-regulatory divergence during cotton domestication

M Wang, L Tu, M Lin, Z Lin, P Wang, Q Yang, Z Ye… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Comparative population genomics offers an excellent opportunity for unraveling the genetic
history of crop domestication. Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) has long been an …

[HTML][HTML] Sequencing of allotetraploid cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L. acc. TM-1) provides a resource for fiber improvement

T Zhang, Y Hu, W Jiang, L Fang, X Guan, J Chen… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Upland cotton is a model for polyploid crop domestication and transgenic improvement.
Here we sequenced the allotetraploid Gossypium hirsutum L. acc. TM-1 genome by …

Genomic innovation and regulatory rewiring during evolution of the cotton genus Gossypium

M Wang, J Li, Z Qi, Y Long, L Pei, X Huang… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Phenotypic diversity and evolutionary innovation ultimately trace to variation in genomic
sequence and rewiring of regulatory networks. Here, we constructed a pan-genome of the …

[HTML][HTML] Reference genome sequences of two cultivated allotetraploid cottons, Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense

M Wang, L Tu, D Yuan, D Zhu, C Shen, J Li, F Liu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Allotetraploid cotton species (Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense) have long
been cultivated worldwide for natural renewable textile fibers. The draft genome sequences …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Genome sequence of Gossypium herbaceum and genome updates of Gossypium arboreum and Gossypium hirsutum provide insights into cotton A …

G Huang, Z Wu, RG Percy, M Bai, Y Li… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Upon assembling the first Gossypium herbaceum (A1) genome and substantially improving
the existing Gossypium arboreum (A2) and Gossypium hirsutum ((AD) 1) genomes, we …

[HTML][HTML] Cotton pan-genome retrieves the lost sequences and genes during domestication and selection

J Li, D Yuan, P Wang, Q Wang, M Sun, Z Liu, H Si, Z Xu… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Millennia of directional human selection has reshaped the genomic architecture
of cultivated cotton relative to wild counterparts, but we have limited understanding of the …