A comprehensive overview of cotton genomics, biotechnology and molecular biological studies

X Wen, Z Chen, Z Yang, M Wang, S Jin, G Wang… - Science China Life …, 2023 - Springer
Cotton is an irreplaceable economic crop currently domesticated in the human world for its
extremely elongated fiber cells specialized in seed epidermis, which makes it of high …

Technology-enabled great leap in deciphering plant genomes

L Xie, X Gong, K Yang, Y Huang, S Zhang, L Shen… - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Plant genomes provide essential and vital basic resources for studying many aspects of
plant biology and applications (for example, breeding). From 2000 to 2020, 1,144 genomes …

Regulatory controls of duplicated gene expression during fiber development in allotetraploid cotton

J You, Z Liu, Z Qi, Y Ma, M Sun, L Su, H Niu, Y Peng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Polyploidy complicates transcriptional regulation and increases phenotypic diversity in
organisms. The dynamics of genetic regulation of gene expression between coresident …

A review of the pangenome: how it affects our understanding of genomic variation, selection and breeding in domestic animals?

Y Gong, Y Li, X Liu, Y Ma, L Jiang - Journal of Animal Science and …, 2023 - Springer
As large-scale genomic studies have progressed, it has been revealed that a single
reference genome pattern cannot represent genetic diversity at the species level. While …

Dipterocarpoidae genomics reveal their demography and adaptations to Asian rainforests

R Wang, CN Liu, ST Segar, YT Jiang, KJ Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Dipterocarpoideae species form the emergent layer of Asian rainforests. They are the
indicator species for Asian rainforest distribution, but they are severely threatened. Here, to …

From genome size to trait evolution during angiosperm radiation

S Bhadra, IJ Leitch, RE Onstein - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Angiosperm diversity arises from trait flexibility and repeated evolutionary radiations, but the
role of genomic characters in these radiations remains unclear. In this opinion article, we …

Cotton pedigree genome reveals restriction of cultivar-driven strategy in cotton breeding

S Liu, D Zuo, H Cheng, M He, Q Wang, L Lv, Y Zhang… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Many elite genes have been identified from the available cotton genomic data,
providing various genetic resources for gene-driven breeding. However, backbone cultivar …

Plant pangenomes for crop improvement, biodiversity and evolution

M Schreiber, M Jayakodi, N Stein… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Plant genome sequences catalogue genes and the genetic elements that regulate their
expression. Such inventories further research aims as diverse as mapping the molecular …

Genome-wide characterization of trichome birefringence-like genes provides insights into fiber yield improvement

Z Li, Y Shi, X Xiao, J Song, P Li, J Gong… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cotton is an important fiber crop. The cotton fiber is an extremely long trichome that
develops from the epidermis of an ovule. The trichome is a general and multi-function plant …

Evolutionary insights into the organization of chromatin structure and landscape of transcriptional regulation in plants

Y Long, JF Wendel, X Zhang, M Wang - Trends in Plant Science, 2023 - cell.com
Abstract Development of complex traits necessitates the functioning and coordination of
intricate regulatory networks involving multiple genes. Understanding 3D chromatin …