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 …

Drought stress restricts plant growth and development by altering metabolic activity and
biological functions. However, plants have evolved several cellular and molecular …

Polyploidy is an evolutionary innovation for many animals and all flowering plants, but its
impact on selection and domestication remains elusive. Here we analyze genome evolution …

Salinity stress is one of the primary threats to agricultural crops resulting in impaired crop
growth and development. Although cotton is considered as reasonably salt tolerant, it is …

Background Polyploidy is a pervasive evolutionary feature of all flowering plants and some
animals, leading to genetic and epigenetic changes that affect gene expression and …

Polyploidy is a prominent feature for genome evolution in many animals and all flowering
plants. Plant polyploids often show enhanced fitness in diverse and extreme environments …

Polyploidy or whole-genome duplication (WGD) is widespread in plants and is a key driver
of evolution and speciation, accompanied by rapid and dynamic changes in genomic …

Natural antisense transcripts (NAT s) are commonly observed in eukaryotic genomes, but
only a limited number of such genes have been identified as being involved in gene …

Hundreds of plant species have been domesticated to feed human civilization, while some
crops have undergone de-domestication into agricultural weeds, threatening global food …

Background Despite remarkable advances in our knowledge of epigenetically mediated
transcriptional programming of cell differentiation in plants, little is known about chromatin …