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Background/Objectives: The classification and phylogenetic relationships of Gossypium hirsutum L. landraces, despite their proximity to southern Mexico, remain unresolved. This study aimed to clarify these relationships using SSR markers and hybridiz...

Cotton is a potential and excellent candidate to balance both agricultural production and remediation of mercury-contained soil, as its main production fiber hardly involves into food chains. However, in cotton, there is known rarely about the tolera...

Sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase (SBPase, EC 3.1.3.37) is a key enzyme in the plant Calvin cycle and one of the main rate-limiting enzymes in the plant photosynthesis pathway. Many studies have demonstrated that the SBPase gene plays an important rol...

Cotton is widely cultivated in temperate regions across the world and is often constrained by a short planting window that is bookended by low, suboptimal temperatures. With the growing interest in early season planting, improvements in the cold germ...

Cotton fiber quality improvement remains a fundamental challenge in breeding programs due to the complex genetic architecture underlying fiber development. The narrow genetic base of upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) and the quantitative nature o...

Cotton is an important commercial crop whose growth and yield are severely affected by drought. S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) is widely involved in the plant stress response and growth regulation; however, the role of the S-adenosylmethionine synthase (...

In this study, we investigated the potential involvement of endogenous viral elements (EVEs) in the development of apical tissue necrosis, resulting in the terminal abortion of upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) in Georgia. The high-throughput seq...

DNA fingerprinting and genetic diversity analysis of 79 early-maturing upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) cultivars were performed using Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) molecular markers. Out of 126 pairs of SSR primers, we selected 71 pairs that gav...

In the context of sustainable agriculture and biomaterial development, understanding and enhancing plant secondary cell wall formation are crucial for improving crop fiber quality and biomass conversion efficiency. This is especially critical for eco...

Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is a major source of natural fiber and an important cash crop. The cotton growth habit and architecture determine its productivity and influence management strategies for commercial production. The GATA transcription factors (...

Multiple cis-acting elements are present in promoter sequences that play critical regulatory roles in gene transcription and expression. In this study, we isolated the cotton FDH (Fiddlehead) gene promoter (pGhFDH) using a real-time reverse transcrip...

CIPK (calcineurin B-like-interacting protein kinase) is a kind of serine/threonine protein kinase widely existing in plants, and it plays an important role in plant growth and development and stress response. To better understand the biological funct...

Fiber quality improvement is a primary goal in cotton breeding. Identification of fiber quality-related genes and understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms are essential prerequisites. Previously, studies determined that silencing the gene Gh...

Understanding drought stress responses and the identification of phenotypic traits associated with drought are key factors in breeding for sustainable cotton production in limited irrigation water of semi-arid environments. The objective of this stud...

Cotton is one of the most important industrial crops in the world. Though widely cultivated in Sicily (Italy) in the past, cotton growth on the island has disappeared today due to a complex variety of agronomic, economic and socio-political reasons....

Cotton is a vital economic crop, and cotton fiber serves as the primary raw material for the textile industry. Lignin in cotton fiber is closely associated with fiber quality. Lignin is synthesized through the phenylpropanoid metabolic pathway, where...

Photosynthesis as a source is a significant contributor to the reproductive sink affecting cotton yield and fiber quality. Moreover, carbon assimilation from subtending leaves adds up a significant proportion to the reproductive sink. Therefore, this...

Cotton is one of the world’s leading fiber crops, but climate change, drought, heat, and salinity have significantly decreased its production, consequently affecting the textile industries globally. To acclimate to these environmental challenge...

In the process of growth and development, cotton exhibits premature senescence under various abiotic stresses, impairing yield and fiber quality. NAC (NAM, ATAF1,2, and CUC2) protein widely distributed in land plants, play the critical role in respon...

The cotton plant is important since it provides raw materials for various industry branches. Even though cotton is generally drought-tolerant, it is affected negatively by long-term drought stress. The trial was conducted according to the applied exp...

(1) Background: Mapping QTLs for early-maturing traits is necessary for the development of early-maturing variety breeding. (2) Methods: In this research, a high-density genetic map (HDGM) was constructed using an F2 population with 100 individuals a...

Resolving the genetic basis of fertility restoration for cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) can improve the efficiency of three-line hybrid breeding. However, the genetic determinants of male fertility restoration in cotton are still largely unknown. T...

Premature leaf senescence occurs in the ultimate phase of the plant, and it occurs through a complex series of actions regulated by stress, hormones and genes. In this study, a proteomic analysis was performed to analyze the factors that could induce...

Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is the primary source of natural textile fiber in the U.S. and a major crop in the Southeastern U.S. Despite constant efforts to increase the cotton fiber yield, the yield gain has stagnated. Therefore, we undertook a novel ap...

The genetic uniformity of cultivated cotton as a consequence of domestication and modern breeding makes it extremely vulnerable to abiotic challenges brought about by major climate shifts. To sustain productivity amidst worsening agro-environments, f...

Hyperspectral technology has enabled rapid and efficient nitrogen monitoring in crops. However, most approaches involve direct monitoring of nitrogen content or physiological and biochemical indicators directly related to nitrogen, which cannot refle...

Cotton is an important agro-industrial crop providing raw material for the textile industry. Fiber length is the key factor that directly affects fiber quality. ADC, arginine decarboxylase, is the key rate-limiting enzyme in the polyamine synthesis p...

Advances in spinning technology have increased the demand for upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) cultivars with superior fiber quality. However, progress in breeding for traits such as fiber length is constrained by limited phenotypic and genetic...

WRKY transcription factors had multiple functions in plant secondary metabolism, leaf senescence, fruit ripening, adaptation to biotic and abiotic stress, and plant growth and development. However, knowledge of the group III WRKY subfamily in fiber d...

Genome-wide association study (GWAS) has identified numerous significant loci for boll number (BN) and boll weight (BW), which play an essential role in cotton (Gossypium spp.) yield. The North Carolina design II (NC II) genetic mating population exh...

Lint percentage is one of the most essential yield components and an important economic index for cotton planting. Improving lint percentage is an effective way to achieve high-yield in cotton breeding worldwide, especially upland cotton (Gossypium h...

Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is one of the important fiber crops. Cotton flowers usually appear white (or cream-colored) without colored spots at the petal base, and turn pink on the next day after flowering. In this study, using a mutant sh...

(1) Background: Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is the most important natural fiber worldwide, and it is extensively planted and plentifully used in the textile industry. Major cotton planting regions are frequently affected by abiotic stress,...

Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is the main natural fiber crop worldwide and is an essential source of seed oil and biofuel products. Many abiotic stresses, such as drought and salinity, constrain cotton production. Thioredoxins (TRXs) are a gr...

Microtubules (MTs) are of importance to fiber development. The Xklp2 (TPX2) proteins as a class of microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) play a key role in plant growth and development by regulating the dynamic changes of microtubules (MTs). However...

Ethylene plays a pivotal role in plant stress resistance and 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid synthase (ACS) is the rate-limiting enzyme in ethylene biosynthesis. Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is the most important natural fiber crop, bu...

Background: Gossypium hirsutum L. is one of the main economic crops worldwide, and increasing the size/weight of its seeds is a potential strategy to improve its seed-related yield. AINTEGUMENTA (ANT) is an organogenesis transcription factor mediatin...

Fuzzless-lintless mutant (fl) ovules of upland cotton have been used to investigate cotton fiber development for decades. However, the molecular differences of green tissues between fl and wild-type (WT) cotton were barely reported. Here, we found th...

Researchers have used quantitative genetics to map cotton fiber quality and agronomic performance loci, but many alleles may be population or environment-specific, limiting their usefulness in a pedigree selection, inbreeding-based system. Here, we u...

Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is a major global commodity crop whose production is threatened by the reniform nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis Linford and Oliveira), a plant-parasitic pest that causes substantial yield losses. Host-plant re...

Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient for plant growth, and low-phosphorus (LP) stress significantly limits cotton productivity. Here, we conducted single- and multi-locus genome-wide association studies (GWASs) on four LP-related traits using 419...

Cotton leaf curl Kokhran virus-Burewala (CLCuKoV-Bur) has a circular single-stranded ssDNA genome of 2759 nucleotides in length and belongs to the genus Begomovirus (family, Geminiviridae). CLCuKoV-Bur causes cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) and is t...

Reniform nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis) is an important microparasite for Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) production. Growing resistant cultivars is the most economical management method, but only a few G. barbadense genotypes and some dip...

Somatic embryogenesis-mediated plant regeneration is essential for the genetic manipulation of agronomically important traits in upland cotton. Genotype specific recalcitrance to regeneration is a primary challenge in deploying genome editing and inc...

The Ogallala aquifer, underlying eight states from South Dakota to Texas, is practically non-recharging south of Nebraska, and groundwater withdrawals for irrigation have lowered the aquifer in western Kansas. Subsequent well-yield declines encourage...

Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) growth and development during the pre-and post-flowering stages are susceptible to high temperature and drought. We report the field-based characterization of multiple morpho-physiological and reproductive stress...

Salinity is amongst the serious abiotic stresses cotton plants face, impairing crop productivity. Foliar application of β-alanine is employed to improve salt tolerance in various crops, but the exact mechanism behind it is not yet completely und...

Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is grown for its elite fiber. Understanding differential gene expression patterns during fiber development will help to identify genes associated with fiber quality. In this study, we used two recombinant inbred lin...

A greenhouse study was conducted to investigate the roles that host plant resistance and soil potassium (K) levels play in affecting Rotylenchulus reniformis Linford and Oliveira (Tylenchida: Hoplolaimidae) (RN) populations and early season cotton (G...

Verticillium wilt that is caused by Verticillium dahliae, does result in massive annual yield losses and fiber quality decline in cotton. Control by conventional mechanisms is not possible due to a wide host range and the longevity of dormant fungi i...