Although major advances have been made during the past 20 years in our understanding of
the genetic and genomic consequences of polyploidy, our knowledge of polyploidy and the …

Cis and trans regulatory divergence underlies phenotypic and evolutionary diversification.
Relatively little is understood about the complexity of regulatory evolution accompanying …

Polyploidy is a widespread phenomenon throughout eukaryotes, with important ecological
and evolutionary consequences. Although genes operate as components of complex …

Background The morphogenesis of single-celled cotton fiber includes extreme elongation
and staged cell wall differentiation. Designing strategies for improving cotton fiber for textiles …

Efficient phosphate (Pi) uptake and utilisation are essential for promoting crop yield.
However, the underlying molecular mechanism is still poorly understood in complex crop …

Background Improving the yield and fiber quality of upland cotton is a goal of plant breeders.
However, increasing the yield and quality of cotton fibers is becoming more urgent. While …

The pigment of naturally brown-colored Upland cotton fibers is caused by condensed tannin
formed by the oxidation of proanthocyanidins (PAs). However, the specific roles of PA …

The fate of doubled genes, from allopolyploid or autopolyploid origin, is controlled at
multiple levels, resulting in the modern day cultivars. We studied the root growth of 3 …

Polyploidy is a prominent mechanism of plant speciation and adaptation, yet the mechanistic
understandings of duplicated gene regulation remain elusive. Chromatin structure dynamics …

Allopolyploidization is accompanied by changes in gene expression that are thought to
contribute to phenotypic diversification. Here we describe global changes in the single …