Verticillium wilt caused by soilborne fungus Verticillium dahliae could significantly reduce
cotton yield. Here, we cloned a tomato Ve homologous gene, Gbve1, from an island cotton …

Living in natural environment, plants often suffer from various biotic and abiotic stresses.
Phosphate deficiency is a common factor affecting crop production in field, while pathogen …

Verticillium wilt caused by Verticillium dahliae is a destructive cotton disease causing severe
yield and quality losses worldwide. WRKY transcription factors play important roles in plant …

Aims Induction of lignin biosynthesis is an adaptive response of plants subjected to many
abiotic stresses. In this study, we examined the response of lignin biosynthesis to copper …

The deposition of lignin during plant–pathogen interactions is thought to play a role in plant
defence. However, the function of lignification genes in plant disease resistance is poorly …

The processes underlying lignification, which for many years have been the near-exclusive
purview of chemists and biochemists, have more recently been approached using both …

Plant receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are important players in response to pathogen infections.
Verticillium and Fusarium wilts, caused by Verticillium dahliae (Vd) and Fusarium …

The digestibility of plant biomass has a major influence on its value as a forage for livestock
and as a feedstock for industrial biotechnology. For both processes, the concentration …

Dirigent super-family abounds throughout the plant kingdom, especially vascular plants. To
elucidate the function of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) DIR genes in lignification, two cDNAs …

The complex allotetraploid nature of the cotton genome (AADD; 2 n= 52) makes genetic,
genomic and functional analyses extremely challenging. Here we sequenced and …