The conventional understanding of the role of the seed coat is that it provides a protective
layer for the developing zygote. Recent data show that the picture is more nuanced. The …

To survive as sedentary organisms built of immobile cells, plants require an effective
intercellular communication system, both locally between neighbouring cells within each …

Cotton fibre is a unicellular seed trichome, and lint fibre initials per seed as a factor
determines fibre yield. However, the mechanisms controlling fibre initiation from ovule …

Little is still known about the developmental control of the long seed coat trichomes of cotton
(Gossypium hirsutum L.). In Arabidopsis, leaf trichome initiation is regulated by a group of …

Although polyploidy is common in plants and some animals, mechanisms for functional
divergence between homoeologous genes are poorly understood. MYB2 gene promotes …

Plant cell growth involves a complex interplay among cell-wall expansion, biosynthesis, and,
in specific tissues, secondary cell wall (SCW) deposition, yet the coordination of these …

Abstract β-1, 3-glucanase functions in plant physiological and developmental processes.
However, how β-1, 3-glucanase participates in cell wall development remains largely …

MYB transcription factors have been implicated in regulation of the development of ovule
epidermal cells into the elongated seed fibres of cotton. An R2R3 MYB, GhMYB25‐like …

Floral organs display tremendous variation in their exterior that is essential for
organogenesis and the interaction with the environment. This diversity in surface …

Gossypium hirsutum L.(cotton) fibres are specialized trichomes a few centimetres in length
that grow from the seed coat. Few genes directly involved in the differentiation of these …