A total of 28,432 unique contigs (25,371 in consensus contigs and 3,061 as singletons) were
assembled from all 268,786 cotton ESTs currently available. Several in silico approaches …

Cotton is an economically important crop, essential for the agriculture and textile industries.
Through integrating transcriptomic data, we discovered that multi-dimensional co …

Background Leaf senescence is an important developmental programmed degeneration
process that dramatically affects crop quality and yield. The regulation of senescence is …

Background Various saprotrophic microorganisms, especially filamentous fungi, can
efficiently degrade lignocellulose that is one of the most abundant natural materials on earth …

Verticillium dahliae seriously affects the yield of cotton. Here, V. dahliae infection induced
the significant reduction of protein concentration in cotton xylem sap (CXS), suggesting that …

Background Verticillium wilt (VW), also known as “cotton cancer,” is one of the most
destructive diseases in global cotton production that seriously impacts fiber yield and quality …

In this study, the 454 pyrosequencing platform was used for analyzing the comparative
transcriptomic profiles of leaf and root tissues of 1-month-old cotton (Gossypium herbaceum) …

Cotton plays an important role in the economy of many countries. Many studies have
revealed that numerous genes and various metabolic pathways are involved in anther …

Chalcone isomerase (CHI) is a key component of phenylalanine metabolism that can
produce a variety of flavonoids. However, little information and no systematic analysis of CHI …

Thurber's cotton (Gossypium thurberi) is the wild relative of cultivated cotton. It is highly
resistant to cotton Verticillium wilt, a disease that significantly affects cotton yield and quality …