Cotton genetic resources contain diverse economically important traits that can be used
widely in breeding approaches to create of high-yielding elite cultivars with superior fiber …

Verticillium dahliae is a soil-borne hemibiotrophic fungus that can lead to plant vascular
disease and significant economic loss worldwide. Its hosts include over 400 dicotyledon …

Plants endure challenging environments in which they are constantly threatened by diverse
pathogens. The soil‐borne fungus Verticillium dahliae is a devastating pathogen affecting …

Upland cotton is an important global cash crop for its long seed fibers and high edible oil
and protein content. Progress in cotton genomics promotes the advancement of cotton …

Long noncoding RNA s (lnc RNA s) have several known functions in plant development, but
their possible roles in responding to plant disease remain largely unresolved. In this study …

In plants, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulate disease resistance against fungi and
other pathogens. However, the specific mechanism behind this regulation remains unclear …

Background Verticillium wilt is one of the most devasting diseases for many plants, leading
to global economic loss. Cotton is known to be vulnerable to its fungal pathogen, Verticillium …

Key message A high-resolution GWAS detected consistent QTL for resistance to Verticillium
wilt and Fusarium wilt race 4 in 376 US Upland cotton accessions based on six independent …

Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is an RNA interference-based technology used to
transiently knock down target gene expression by utilizing modified plant viral genomes …

In modern plant breeding, genomic selection is becoming the gold standard for selection of
superior genotypes. The basis for genomic prediction models is a set of phenotyped lines …