Cotton, a natural fiber producing crop of huge importance for textile industry, has been
reckoned as the backbone in the economy of many developing countries. Verticillium wilt …

Functional genomics has transformed from futuristic concept to well‐established scientific
discipline during the last decade. Cotton functional genomics promise to enhance the …

Although some WRKY s have been characterized, regulatory roles of most WRKY s remain
poorly understood. Herein, we elucidated function of Fc WRKY 40 from Fortunella crassifolia …

Gossypium hirsutum is an allotetraploid species, meaning that mutants that are difficult to be
generated by classical approaches due to gene redundancy. The CRISPR/Cas9 genome …

The vascular pathogen Verticillium dahliae infects the roots of plants to cause Verticillium
wilt. The molecular mechanisms underlying V. dahliae virulence and host resistance remain …

Long noncoding RNA s (lnc RNA s) have several known functions in plant development, but
their possible roles in responding to plant disease remain largely unresolved. In this study …

Plants have evolved effective mechanisms to protect themselves against multiple stresses,
and employ jasmonates (JAs) as vital defence signals to defend against pathogen infection …

Verticillium wilt, caused by the soil-borne fungus Verticillium dahliae, is a destructive
vascular disease in plants. Approximately 200 dicotyledonous plant species in temperate …

The homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-ZIP) is a plant-specific transcription factor family that
plays important roles in plant developmental processes in response to multiple stressors …

Early blight (EB), caused by Alternaria solani, is a major threat to global tomato production.
In comparison with cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), a wild relative, S. arcanum …