A brief summary of major advances in cotton functional genomics and molecular breeding studies in China

YM Qin, YX Zhu - Chinese Science Bulletin, 2007 - Springer
Cotton fibers, commonly known as cotton lint, are single-celled trichomes derived from
epidermal layers of cotton ovules. Despite of its importance in word trade, the molecular …

Cotton omics in China

X Chen, W Guo, T Zhang - Plant Omics, 2011 - search.informit.org
In the 21st century, advent of the omics era provides scientists with greater opportunities to
dissect molecular mechanisms of cotton fiber development. Cotton contributes natural fiber …

Molecular biological and biochemical studies reveal new pathways important for cotton fiber development

Y Xu, HB Li, YX Zhu - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
As one of the longest single‐celled seed trichomes, fibers provide an excellent model for
studying fundamental biological processes such as cell differentiation, cell expansion, and …

Transcriptional landscape of cotton fiber development and its alliance with fiber-associated traits

P Prasad, U Khatoon, RK Verma, S Aalam… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cotton fiber development is still an intriguing question to understand fiber commitment and
development. At different fiber developmental stages, many genes change their expression …

Recent advances in molecular biology research on cotton fiber development

XX Shangguan, N Yu, LJ Wang, XY Chen - Cotton: Biotechnological …, 2010 - Springer
Cotton (Gossypium spp.) plants produce seed trichomes that are the most important textile
fiber. Fiber cell initiation and elongation are two key developmental stages that determine …

Transcriptomic repertoires depict the initiation of lint and fuzz fibres in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)

H Hu, M Wang, Y Ding, S Zhu, G Zhao… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cotton fibre is an important natural fibre for the textile industry. The number of fibre initials
determines the lint percentage, which is an important factor for cotton fibre yield. Although …

A comprehensive overview of cotton genomics, biotechnology and molecular biological studies

X Wen, Z Chen, Z Yang, M Wang, S Jin, G Wang… - Science China Life …, 2023 - Springer
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 …

Cotton functional genomics reveals global insight into genome evolution and fiber development

Z Wu, Y Yang, G Huang, J Lin, Y Xia, Y Zhu - Journal of Genetics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Due to the economic value of natural textile fiber, cotton has attracted much research
attention, which has led to the publication of two diploid genomes and two tetraploid …

Transcriptome time-course analysis in the whole period of cotton fiber development

J Zhang, H Mei, H Lu, R Chen, Y Hu… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense are the widely cultivated tetraploid cottons
around the world, which evolved great differences in the fiber yield and quality due to the …

Identification of candidate genes for lint percentage and fiber quality through QTL mapping and transcriptome analysis in an allotetraploid interspecific cotton CSSLs …

P Yang, X Sun, X Liu, W Wang, Y Hao… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
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 …