Cotton and drought stress: An updated overview for improving stress tolerance

S Zafar, H Afzal, A Ijaz, A Mahmood, A Ayub… - South African Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Owing to changing climatic conditions, drought stress has emerged as a global issue
significantly affecting the production of cotton. Enhancing water use efficiency and …

Fiber yield and quality in cotton under drought: Effects and management

S Ul-Allah, A Rehman, M Hussain, M Farooq - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change has increased the frequency and intensity of abiotic stresses, especially
drought has become the major threat to cotton production worldwide due to long and intense …

High-quality genome assembly and resequencing of modern cotton cultivars provide resources for crop improvement

Z Ma, Y Zhang, L Wu, G Zhang, Z Sun, Z Li, Y Jiang… - Nature Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Cotton produces natural fiber for the textile industry. The genetic effects of genomic structural
variations underlying agronomic traits remain unclear. Here, we generate two high-quality …

The bHLH/HLH transcription factors GhFP2 and GhACE1 antagonistically regulate fiber elongation in cotton

R Lu, Y Li, J Zhang, Y Wang, J Zhang, Y Li… - Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Basic helix–loop–helix/helix–loop–helix (bHLH/HLH) transcription factors play important
roles in cell elongation in plants. However, little is known about how bHLH/HLH transcription …

A brassinosteroid transcriptional regulatory network participates in regulating fiber elongation in cotton

L Liu, G Chen, S Li, Y Gu, L Lu, G Qanmber… - Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Brassinosteroids (BRs) participate in the regulation of plant growth and development
through BRI1-EMS-SUPPRESSOR1 (BES1)/BRASSINAZOLE-RESISTANT1 (BZR1) family …

Functional characterization of MaEXPA11 and its roles in response to biotic and abiotic stresses in mulberry

Y Guo, X Kang, Y Huang, Z Guo, Y Wang, S Ma… - Plant Physiology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mulberry is a traditional economic tree with various values in sericulture, ecology, food
industry and medicine. Expansins (EXPs) are known as cell wall expansion related proteins …

GhEXL3 participates in brassinosteroids regulation of fiber elongation in Gossypium hirsutum

C Zhang, Z Liu, S Shu, X Li, Y Li, L Liu, L Liu… - The Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cotton fiber (Gossypium hirsutum) serves as an ideal model for investigating the molecular
mechanisms of plant cell elongation at the single‐cell level. Brassinosteroids (BRs) play a …

Overexpression of a sucrose synthase gene indirectly improves cotton fiber quality through sucrose cleavage

M Ahmed, A Iqbal, A Latif, SU Din, MB Sarwar… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The study aims to improve fiber traits of local cotton cultivar through genetic transformation of
sucrose synthase (SuS) gene in cotton. Sucrose synthase (SuS) is an important factor that is …

A conserved brassinosteroid-mediated BES1-CERP-EXPA3 signaling cascade controls plant cell elongation

L Zhu, H Wang, J Zhu, X Wang, B Jiang, L Hou, G Xiao - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Continuous plant growth is achieved by cell division and cell elongation. Brassinosteroids
control cell elongation and differentiation throughout plant life. However, signaling cascades …

GhKNL1 controls fiber elongation and secondary cell wall synthesis by repressing its downstream genes in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum)

Y Wang, Y Li, SY Gong, LX Qin, XY Nie… - Journal of Integrative …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cotton which produces natural fiber materials for the textile industry is one of the most
important crops in the world. Class II KNOX proteins are often considered as transcription …