Cotton Genes, Genetics, and Genomics—2nd Edition
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 1485
Special Issue Editors
2. Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, China
Interests: cotton; polyploidy; domestication; multi-omics; gene regulatory network; duplicated gene expression; abiotic stress
Interests: cotton; verticillium; transcriptome; genes; genome
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cotton is the most important fiber crop worldwide. Cotton fibers (unicellular seed trichomes) provide an excellent model for studying cell differentiation, polarity, and expansion. The evolutionary history of the cotton genus (Gossypium) also presents an ideal model for investigating the genome evolution of speciation, allopolyploidization, and domestication. However, the allopolyploid nature of tetraploid cotton species still hinders genetic dissection and a mechanistic understanding of phenotypic traits of interest, especially in cultivated upland cotton (G. hirsutum) and sea-island cotton (G. barbadense). In recent years, high-quality genomic resources and the development of emerging technologies (i.e., genome editing, multi-omics technology, and bioinformatics) have facilitated insight into the complicated gene regulatory networks underlying cotton biology and evolution.
In light of these advances, this Special Issue aims to showcase how cotton researchers have leveraged up-to-date resources and new technologies to gain new knowledge of the molecular and functional genomics of cotton. We welcome original research and review manuscripts on diverse topics and scales across cotton genetics and genomics. Submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics are invited: (1) cotton germplasm and genomic resources in terms of evolutionary characterization and genetic dissection, (2) the molecular basis and biological networks of key cotton traits under static and stressed conditions, and (3) biotechnology, bioinformatics, and databases.
Dr. Guanjing Hu
Guest Editor
Dr. Xianpeng Xiong
Co-Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cotton
- gene identification and functional validation
- functional genomics
- multi-omics
- gene networks
- stress tolerance
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