Cotton is not only the world's most important natural fiber crop, but it is also an ideal system
in which to study genome evolution, polyploidization, and cell elongation. With the assembly …

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 …

Polyploidy complicates transcriptional regulation and increases phenotypic diversity in
organisms. The dynamics of genetic regulation of gene expression between coresident …

It has long been recognized that hybridization and polyploidy are prominent processes in
plant evolution. Although classically recognized as significant in speciation and adaptation …

The majority of the crops and vegetables of today were domesticated from their wild
progenitors within the past 12 000 years. Considerable research effort has been expended …

The success of common wheat as a global staple crop was largely attributed to its genomic
diversity and redundancy due to the merge of different genomes, giving rise to the major …

The two cultivated allopolyploid cottons, Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense,
represent a remarkable example of parallel independent domestication, both involving …

Heterosis is a common biological phenomenon in nature. It substantially contributes to the
biomass yield and grain yield of plants. Moreover, this phenomenon results in high …

Allopolyploidy greatly expands the range of possible regulatory interactions among
functionally redundant homoeologous genes. However, connection between the emerging …

Hybridization and polyploidy have been considered as significant evolutionary forces in
adaptation and speciation, especially among plants. Interspecific gene flow generates novel …