Environmental factors are the major constraints in sustainable agriculture. WRKY proteins
are a large family of transcription factors (TFs) that regulate various developmental …

Novel crop improvement approaches, including those that facilitate for the exploitation of
crop wild relatives and underutilized species harboring the much-needed natural allelic …

Introduction The simultaneous improvement of fiber quality and yield for cotton is strongly
limited by the narrow genetic backgrounds of Gossypium hirsutum (Gh) and the negative …

Glandless cotton (devoid of toxic gossypol) can be grown as a triple-purpose crop for fiber,
feeds, and food (as an oil and protein source). However, its sensitivity to insect pests and its …

Interspecific breeding in cotton takes advantage of genetic recombination among desirable
genes from different parental lines. However, the expression new alleles (ENAs) from …

Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) has long been an important fiber crop, but the narrow
genetic diversity of modern G. hirsutum limits the potential for simultaneous improvement of …

Key message Integrated QTL mapping and WGCNA condense the potential gene regulatory
network involved in oil accumulation. A glycosyl hydrolases gene (GhHSD1) for oil …

Fiber quality and yield-related traits are important agronomic traits in cotton breeding. To
detect the genetic basis of fiber quality and yield related traits, a recombinant inbred line …

Key message Background-independent (BI) and stably expressed (SE) quantitative trait loci
(QTLs) were identified using two sets of introgression lines across multiple environments …

Fusarium wilt (FW) caused by race 4 (FOV4) of the soil-borne fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.
sp. vasinfectum causes high cotton seedling mortality under field conditions in the west and …