Global food demand is expected to nearly double by 2050 due to an increase in the world's
population. The Green Revolution has played a key role in the past century by increasing …

Polyploidy is an evolutionary innovation for many animals and all flowering plants, but its
impact on selection and domestication remains elusive. Here we analyze genome evolution …

Cotton genetic resources contain diverse economically important traits that can be used
widely in breeding approaches to create of high-yielding elite cultivars with superior fiber …

Over the last eight years, the volume of whole genome, gene expression, SNP genoty**,
and phenotype data generated by the cotton research community has exponentially …

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 …

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most abundant DNA sequence variation in
the genomes which can be used to associate genotypic variation to the phenotype …

Cultivated apple (Malus× domestica Borkh.) is one of the most important fruit crops in
temperate regions, and has great economic and cultural value. The apple genome is highly …

Gossypium hirsutum L. represents the largest source of textile fibre, and China is one of the
largest cotton‐producing and cotton‐consuming countries in the world. To investigate the …

Polyploid organisms carry more than two copies of each chromosome, a condition rarely
tolerated in animals but which occurs relatively frequently in the plant kingdom. One of the …