Polyploidy often confers emergent properties, such as the higher fibre productivity and
quality of tetraploid cottons than diploid cottons bred for the same environments. Here we …

Fine mapping and positional cloning will eventually improve with the anchoring of additional
markers derived from genomic clones such as BACs. From 2,603 new BAC-end genomic …

Despite rapidly decreasing costs and innovative technologies, sequencing of angiosperm
genomes is not yet undertaken lightly. Generating larger amounts of sequence data more …

Even before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, the perception of evolutionary
change has been a tree-like pattern of diversification-with divergent branches spreading …

Since 6000 BC, cotton has been cultivated for lint fiber, which now dominates the natural
textile industry worldwide. Common resources such as an integrated web database, a …

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 …

QTL mapping experiments yield heterogeneous results due to the use of different
genotypes, environments, and sampling variation. Compilation of QTL mapping results …

A silencing vector for cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) was developed from the geminivirus
Cotton leaf crumple virus (CLCrV). The CLCrV coat protein gene was replaced by up to 500 …

Background Inositol monophosphates (IMP) are key enzymes in the ascorbic acid (AsA)
synthesis pathways, which play vital roles in regulating plant growth and development and …

Background In plants, sucrose synthase (Sus) is widely considered as a key enzyme
involved in sucrose metabolism. Several paralogous genes encoding different isozymes of …