Cottonseed oil is one of the most important renewable resources for edible oil and biodiesel.
To detect QTLs associated with cottonseed oil content (OC) and identify candidate genes …

Cottonseed oil is the valuable byproduct extracted after seed cotton processing for lint. It
confers a huge contribution to total vegetable oil production and ranked the 2nd to meet …

Background Lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase (LPAAT) encoded by a multigene family
is a rate-limiting enzyme in the Kennedy pathway in higher plants. Cotton is the most …

Main conclusion Some naturally occurring cotton accessions contain commercially attractive
seed oil fatty acid profiles. The likely causal factor for a high-oleate trait in pima cotton …

Background The majority of commercial cotton varieties planted worldwide are derived from
Gossypium hirsutum, which is a naturally occurring allotetraploid produced by interspecific …

Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is an important resource of fiber and oil. Oil content in cottonseed is
getting more and more attention. In present study, a genetic map with 388 molecular …

Inverted-repeat-based gene constructs targeted against two key cotton seed-specific fatty
acid desaturase genes, ghSAD-1 encoding stearoylacyl carrier protein Δ9-desaturase and …

Protein palmitoylation, the most common and the only reversible post-translational lipid
modification following protein translation, plays a pivotal role in the biochemical and …

A homologous GhDof1, which belongs to a large family of plant-specific transcription factor
DOF, was isolated from Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). GhDof1 protein was located …

Background Auxin-induced genes regulate many aspects of plant growth and development.
The Gretchen Hagen 3 (GH3) gene family, one of three major early auxin-responsive …