Cotton breeders face many problems, such as negative association between lint yield and
fiber strength, in their efforts to improve fiber quality through conventional breeding methods …

Background Cotton is the leading fiber crop worldwide. Gossypium barbadense is an
important species of cotton because of its extra-long staple fibers with superior luster and …

One of the impediments in the genetic improvement of cotton fiber is the paucity of
information about genes associated with fiber development. Availability of chromosome arm …

Sea-island cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.) is one of the most valuable cotton species
due to its silkiness, luster, long staples, and high strength, but its fiber development …

Gossypium hirsutum and G. barbadense are two cultivated tetraploid cotton species with
differences in fibre quality. The fibre of G. barbadense is longer, stronger and finer than that …

Cotton is the largest source of renewable textile fiber and an important oil crop. Cotton fibers
make comfortable apparel, beautiful home furnishings, durable paper money such as US …

Even after several economical transformations and technical advances in the synthetic
fibers, cotton is still the most preferred fiber for its comfort and simplicity. Cotton has been an …

Cotton is the most prevalent natural textile fiber, accounting for 96% of consumption. The
fiber, a tubular hair cell in the range of 1 to 1.2 inches long, is a differentiated epidermal cell …

A global gene expression profiling study at different stages of fiber development was
undertaken on two cotton species cultivated for fiber, Gossypium hirsutum (L.) and G …

As high-strength cotton fibers are critical components of high quality cotton, developing
cotton cultivars with high-strength fibers as well as high yield is a top priority for cotton …