Insights into drought stress signaling in plants and the molecular genetic basis of cotton drought tolerance

T Mahmood, S Khalid, M Abdullah, Z Ahmed… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Drought stress restricts plant growth and development by altering metabolic activity and
biological functions. However, plants have evolved several cellular and molecular …

A pivotal role of hormones in regulating cotton fiber development

G Xiao, P Zhao, Y Zhang - Frontiers in plant science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cotton is the main source of renewable fiber in the world and is primarily used for textile
production. Cotton fibers are single cells differentiated from the ovule epidermis and are an …

Gossypium barbadense and Gossypium hirsutum genomes provide insights into the origin and evolution of allotetraploid cotton

Y Hu, J Chen, L Fang, Z Zhang, W Ma, Y Niu, L Ju… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Allotetraploid cotton is an economically important natural-fiber-producing crop worldwide.
After polyploidization, Gossypium hirsutum L. evolved to produce a higher fiber yield and to …

Reference genome sequences of two cultivated allotetraploid cottons, Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense

M Wang, L Tu, D Yuan, D Zhu, C Shen, J Li, F Liu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Allotetraploid cotton species (Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense) have long
been cultivated worldwide for natural renewable textile fibers. The draft genome sequences …

Assembly of allele-aware, chromosomal-scale autopolyploid genomes based on Hi-C data

X Zhang, S Zhang, Q Zhao, R Ming, H Tang - Nature plants, 2019 - nature.com
Construction of chromosome-level assembly is a vital step in achieving the goal of a
'Platinum'genome, but it remains a major challenge to assemble and anchor sequences to …

Gene duplication and evolution in recurring polyploidization–diploidization cycles in plants

X Qiao, Q Li, H Yin, K Qi, L Li, R Wang, S Zhang… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Background The sharp increase of plant genome and transcriptome data provide valuable
resources to investigate evolutionary consequences of gene duplication in a range of taxa …

Extensive intraspecific gene order and gene structural variations in upland cotton cultivars

Z Yang, X Ge, Z Yang, W Qin, G Sun, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Multiple cotton genomes (diploid and tetraploid) have been assembled. However, genomic
variations between cultivars of allotetraploid upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), the …

Multi‐omics analyses reveal epigenomics basis for cotton somatic embryogenesis through successive regeneration acclimation process

J Li, M Wang, Y Li, Q Zhang, K Lindsey… - Plant biotechnology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Plant regeneration via somatic embryogenesis is time‐consuming and highly genotype‐
dependent. The plant somatic embryogenesis process provokes many epigenetics changes …

De Novo Genome Sequence Assemblies of Gossypium raimondii and Gossypium turneri

JA Udall, E Long, C Hanson, D Yuan… - G3: Genes …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Cotton is an agriculturally important crop. Because of its importance, a genome sequence of
a diploid cotton species (Gossypium raimondii, D-genome) was first assembled using …

Unraveling cis and trans regulatory evolution during cotton domestication

Y Bao, G Hu, CE Grover, J Conover, D Yuan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Cis and trans regulatory divergence underlies phenotypic and evolutionary diversification.
Relatively little is understood about the complexity of regulatory evolution accompanying …