Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is the most important natural fiber crop worldwide. The diversity of
Gossypium species also provides an ideal model for investigating evolution and …

A series of 320 mapped simple sequence repeats (SSRs) have been used to screen the
allelic diversity of tetraploid Gossypium species. Fourty-seven genotypes were analyzed …

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 …

Cotton is one of the most economically important fiber crop plants worldwide. The genus
Gossypium contains a single allotetraploid group (AD) and eight diploid genome groups (A …

Although upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutism L.) originated in the tropics, this early maturity
cotton can be planted as far north as 46° N in China due to the accumulation of numerous …

Improvement of photosynthetic traits in crops to increase yield potential and crop resilience
has recently become a major breeding target. Synthetic biology and genetic technologies …

Plant nuclear genomes exhibit extensive structural variation in size, chromosome number,
number and arrangement of genes, and number of genome copies per nucleus. This …

Background Interspecific hybridization and whole genome duplication are driving forces of
genomic and organism diversification. But the effect of interspecific hybridization and whole …

Understanding the relationship between domesticated crop species and their wild relatives
is paramount to germplasm maintenance and the utilization of wild relatives in breeding …

Abstract Background Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) accounts for about 95% of
world cotton production. Improving Upland cotton cultivars has been the focus of world-wide …