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 …

Sugars play a key role in fruit quality, as they directly influence taste, and thus consumer
acceptance. Carbohydrates are the main resources needed by the plant for carbon and …

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 …

Cotton fibre is a unicellular seed trichome, and lint fibre initials per seed as a factor
determines fibre yield. However, the mechanisms controlling fibre initiation from ovule …

Under the natural environment, nutrient signals interact with phytohormones to coordinate
and reprogram plant growth and survival. Sugars are important molecules that control …

The complex allotetraploid genome is one of major challenges in cotton for repressing gene
expression. Developing site-specific DNA mutation is the long-term dream for cotton …

Plant trichomes, protrusions formed from specialized aboveground epidermal cells, provide
protection against various biotic and abiotic stresses. Trichomes can be unicellular …

Gossypium hirsutum is an allotetraploid species, meaning that mutants that are difficult to be
generated by classical approaches due to gene redundancy. The CRISPR/Cas9 genome …

In the fleshy fruit of cucumbers (Cucumis sativus L.), the phloem flow is unloaded via an
apoplasmic pathway, which requires protein carriers to export sugars derived from …

Reduced cell wall invertase (CWIN) activity has been shown to be associated with poor
seed and fruit set under abiotic stress. Here, we examined whether genetically increasing …