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 …

Epigenetic inheritance is another piece of the puzzle of nongenetic inheritance, although the
prevalence, sources, persistence, and phenotypic consequences of heritable epigenetic …

Cotton fibre is a unicellular seed trichome, and lint fibre initials per seed as a factor
determines fibre yield. However, the mechanisms controlling fibre initiation from ovule …

Background Millennia of directional human selection has reshaped the genomic architecture
of cultivated cotton relative to wild counterparts, but we have limited understanding of the …

The CRISPR/Cas9 system has been extensively applied for crop improvement. However,
our understanding of Cas9 specificity is very limited in Cas9‐edited plants. To identify on …

Despite the established significance of WRKY proteins and phenylpropanoid metabolism in
plant immunity, how WRKY proteins modulate aspects of the phenylpropanoid pathway …

Somatic embryogenesis is a method of asexual reproduction that can occur naturally in
various plant species and is widely used for clonal propagation, transformation and …

The base‐editing technique using CRISPR/nC as9 (Cas9 nickase) or dC as9 (deactivated
Cas9) fused with cytidine deaminase is a powerful tool to create point mutations. In this …

Background Somatic embryogenesis is a major process for plant regeneration. However,
cell communication and the gene regulatory network responsible for cell reprogramming …

Global food security is one of the utmost essential challenges in the 21st century in providing
enough food for the growing population while coping with the already stressed environment …