Phenotypic diversity and evolutionary innovation ultimately trace to variation in genomic
sequence and rewiring of regulatory networks. Here, we constructed a pan-genome of the …

Improvement of photosynthetic traits in crops to increase yield potential and crop resilience
has recently become a major breeding target. Synthetic biology and genetic technologies …

Interspecific hybridization has contributed significantly to land diversity, species evolution,
and crops' domestication, including upland cotton, the cultivated form of Gossypium …

Mitochondrial and plastid functions depend on coordinated expression of proteins encoded
by genomic compartments that have radical differences in copy number of organellar and …

Polyploidy provides an opportunity for evolutionary innovation and species diversification,
especially under stressful conditions. In allopolyploids, the conditional dynamics of …

Water stress is a critical abiotic stress for plant reduction in arid and semiarid zones and, has
been discovered to be detrimental to the development of seedlings as well as the growth …

Whole-genome duplication (polyploidization) is among the most dramatic mutational
processes in nature, so understanding how natural selection differs in polyploids relative to …

Whole-genome duplications (WGDs) are a prominent process of diversification in
eukaryotes. The genetic and evolutionary forces that WGD imposes on cytoplasmic …

Domestication in the cotton genus is remarkable in that it has occurred independently four
different times at two different ploidy levels. Relatively little is known about genome evolution …

Climate change is expected to alter species distribution and habitat composition, with wild
species being particularly vulnerable. Gossypium aridum, a wild cotton species in Mexico …