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 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 …

Abstract The Human Silencing Hub (HUSH) complex is necessary for epigenetic repression
of LINE-1 elements. We show that HUSH-depletion in human cell lines and primary …

Most diploid organisms have polyploid ancestors. The evolutionary process of
polyploidization is poorly understood but has frequently been conjectured to involve some …

Almost all plants in the genus Populus are dioecious (ie trees are either male or female), but
it is unknown whether dioecy evolved in a common ancestor or independently in different …

Allopolyploidization, resulting in divergent genomes in the same cell, is believed to trigger a
“genome shock”, leading to broad genetic and epigenetic changes. However, little is …

Salt stress severely damages the growth and yield of crops. Recently, long noncoding RNAs
(lncRNAs) were demonstrated to regulate various biological processes and responses to …

Global warming has reduced the productivity of many field‐grown crops, as the effects of
high temperatures can lead to male sterility in such plants. Genetic regulation of the high …

Long non‐coding RNAs (lncRNAs) mediate diverse biological events mainly through the
modulation of transcriptional hierarchy. The phytohormone gibberellin (GA) is essential for …

Whole-genome duplications are an important source of evolutionary novelties that change
the mode and tempo at which genetic elements evolve within a genome. The Cucurbita …