Background Micronaire is a comprehensive index reflecting the fineness and maturity of
cotton fiber. Micronaire is one of the important internal quality indicators of the cotton fiber …

Cotton is the most important fiber crop and provides indispensable natural fibers for the
textile industry. Micronaire (MIC) is determined by fiber fineness and maturity and is an …

Key message The fiber length-related qFL-A12-5 identified in CSSLs introgressed from
Gossypium barbadense into Gossypium hirsutum was fine-mapped to an 18.8 kb region on …

Background Improving cotton fiber length without reducing yield is one of the major goals of
cotton breeding. However, genetic improvement of cotton fiber length by breeding has been …

Key message A fiber length QTL, qFL-c10-1, was fine-mapped to a 96.5-kb region
containing one gene that has not been characterized in plants. Abstract Fiber length is an …

Fiber length, fiber strength, and fiber micronaire are the main fiber quality parameters in
cotton. Thus, mining the elite and stable loci/alleles related to fiber quality traits and …

Background Fiber quality is an important economic trait of cotton, and its improvement is a
major goal of cotton breeding. To better understand the genetic mechanisms responsible for …

Key message A GWAS in an elite diversity panel, evaluated across 10 environments,
identified genomic regions regulating six fiber quality traits, facilitating genomics-assisted …

Fiber quality is an important economic index and a major breeding goal in cotton, but direct
phenotypic selection is often hindered due to environmental influences and linkage with …

A major breeding target in Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is to improve the fiber
quality. To address this issue, 169 diverse accessions, genotyped by 53,848 high-quality …