Xingpeng Wen, Zhiwen Chen, Zuoren Yang, Maojun Wang, Shuangxia Jin, Guangda Wang, Li Zhang, Lingjian Wang, Jianying Li, Sumbul Saeed, Shoupu He, Zhi Wang, Kun Wang, Zhaosheng Kong, Fuguang Li, Xianlong Zhang, Xiaoya Chen, Yuxian Zhu
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 research and application value. To date, numerous research on cotton has navigated various aspects, from multi-genome assembly, genome editing, mechanism of fiber development, metabolite biosynthesis, and analysis to genetic breeding. Genomic and 3D genomic studies reveal the origin of cotton species and the spatiotemporal asymmetric chromatin structure in fibers...
March 6, 2023: Science China. Life Sciences