Key message Results from various expansin related studies have demonstrated that
expansins present an opportunity to improve various crops in many different aspects ranging …

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 …

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 …

Allotetraploid cotton species (Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense) have long
been cultivated worldwide for natural renewable textile fibers. The draft genome sequences …

Trichomes are specialized epidermal cells and a vital plant organ that protect plants from
various harms and provide valuable resources for plant development and use. Some key …

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 …

Plant cell walls represent an enormous biomass resource for the generation of biofuels and
chemicals. As lignocellulose property principally determines biomass recalcitrance, the …

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 …

Upland cotton is an important global cash crop for its long seed fibers and high edible oil
and protein content. Progress in cotton genomics promotes the advancement of cotton …

The cotton fibre serves as a valuable experimental system to study cell wall synthesis in
plants, but our understanding of the genetic regulation of this process during fibre …