Background Cotton germplasm resources contain beneficial alleles that can be exploited to
develop germplasm adapted to emerging environmental and climate conditions. Accessions …

Background Gossypium hirsutum L., or upland cotton, is an important renewable resource
for textile fiber. To enhance understanding of the genetic basis of cotton earliness, we …

Key message Using bulked segregant analysis based on next-generation sequencing, the
recessive nulliplex-branch gene was mapped between two SNP markers~ 600 kb apart …

Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is an important agricultural crop that provides renewable
natural fiber resources for the global textile industry. Technological developments in the …

Abstract Background Ramie (Boehmeria nivea L.) is one of the most important natural fiber
crops and an important forage grass in south China. Ramet number, which is a quantitative …

Solanum nigrum is a noxious weed in agricultural ecosystem that limits many crops'
production. The aim of the present study was to understand the level of genetic diversity and …

[Objective] Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) show high diversity in genomes and
they are important markers for map construction and marker assistant selection (MAS). The …

The interaction between Arabidopsis thaliana and the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora
parasitica emerges as a model for exploring the molecular basis and evolution of …

By studying the regulatory mechanism by which rice tillers are controlled, many rice mutants
were described as providing important insights into the investigation of tillering control. In …

BACKGROUND The small brown planthopper (Laodelphax striatellus) is a widespread
insect pest of rice in East Asia. Previous studies have shown the long‐distance migrations …