Background Because of its size, allohexaploid nature, and high repeat content, the bread
wheat genome is a good model to study the impact of the genome structure on gene …

Cotton fiber as a single-celled trichome is a biological model system for studying cell
differentiation and elongation. However, the complexity of its gene expression and …

Background Cotton fibers (produced by Gossypium species) are the premier natural fibers
for textile production. The two tetraploid species, G. barbadense (Gb) and G. hirsutum (Gh) …

Dirigent super-family abounds throughout the plant kingdom, especially vascular plants. To
elucidate the function of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) DIR genes in lignification, two cDNAs …

Gossypium hirsutum is a high yield cotton species that exhibits only moderate performance
in fiber qualities. A promising but challenging approach to improving its phenotypes is …

A diversity reference set has been constructed for the Gossypium accessions in the US
National Cotton Germplasm Collection to facilitate more extensive evaluation and utilization …

Molecular breeding has a crucial role in improvement of crops. Conventional breeding
techniques have failed to ameliorate food production. Next generation sequencing has …

The dawdling development in genetic improvement of cotton with conventional breeding
program is chiefly due to lack of complete knowledge on and precise manipulation of fiber …

Molecular markers such as simple sequence repeats (SSR) are a useful tool for
characterizing genetic diversity of Gossypium germplasm. Genetic profiles by DNA …

A quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping was conducted to better understand the genetic
control of plant architecture (PA), yield components (YC), and fiber properties (FP) in the two …