Cotton is not only the world's most important natural fiber crop, but it is also an ideal system
in which to study genome evolution, polyploidization, and cell elongation. With the assembly …

Cotton genetic resources contain diverse economically important traits that can be used
widely in breeding approaches to create of high-yielding elite cultivars with superior fiber …

Background Despite the prevalence and recurrence of polyploidization in the speciation of
flowering plants, its impacts on crop intraspecific genome diversification are largely …

Plant genomes remain highly fragmented and are often characterized by hundreds to
thousands of assembly gaps. Here, we report chromosome-level reference and phased …

Over the last eight years, the volume of whole genome, gene expression, SNP genotyping,
and phenotype data generated by the cotton research community has exponentially …

The consequences of the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary (KPB) mass extinction
for the evolution of plant diversity remain poorly understood, even though evolutionary …

Transposable element (TE) amplification has been recognized as a driving force mediating
genome size expansion and evolution, but the consequences for shaping 3D genomic …

Coptis chinensis Franch, a perennial herb, is mainly distributed in southeastern China. The
rhizome of C. chinensis has been used as a traditional medicine for more than 2000 years in …

Highlights•Seed trichome or fiber in cotton serves as an ideal model to study plant cell
differentiation.•Fiber initiation determines cotton fiber yield.•GhMMLs evolve important and …

We present an overview of Gossypium genome evolution and the implications of this
understanding for targeted breeding objectives. The cotton genus (Gossypium) contains …