Gossypium barbadense is a cultivated cotton species and possesses many desirable traits,
including high fiber quality and resistance to pathogens, especially Verticillium dahliae (a …

The study described here has optimized the conditions for virus-induced gene silencing
(VIGS) in three cultivated cotton species (Gossypium hirsutum, G. arboreum, and G …

Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is one of the most agronomically important crops worldwide for its
unique textile fiber production and serving as food and feed stock. Molecular breeding and …

Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is one of the most important crops worldwide. Considerable
efforts have been made on molecular breeding of new varieties. The large-scale gene …

Cotton is an important cash crop worldwide, and is a significant source of fiber, feed,
foodstuff, oil and biofuel products. Considerable effort has been expended to increase …

Verticillium wilt (VW), caused by soil‐borne fungi of the genus Verticillium, is a serious
disease affecting a wide range of plants and leading to a constant and major challenge to …

Verticillium wilt caused by the soil-borne fungus Verticillium dahliae, is a devastating
disease in cotton. To get more candidate genes related to wilt resistance, a normalized, full …

Key message A VIGS method by agroinoculation of cotton seeds was developed for gene
silencing in young seedlings and roots, and applied in functional analysis of GhBI-1 in …

Cotton is an important economic crop worldwide. Due to its long growth cycle, large genome
size and recalcitrance to stable transformation, traditional methods for the analysis of gene …

The exploding availability of genome and EST-based sequences from grasses requires a
technology that allows rapid functional analysis of the multitude of genes that these …