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 …

Key message Results from various expansin related studies have demonstrated that
expansins present an opportunity to improve various crops in many different aspects ranging …

Increased levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and associated climatic variability
is primarily responsible for inducing heat waves, flooding and drought stress. Among these …

Cotton fibers are single-celled extensions of the seed epidermis. They can be isolated in
pure form as they undergo staged differentiation including primary cell wall synthesis during …

Cucurbitaceae is one of the most genetically diverse plant families in the world. Many of
them are important vegetables or medicinal plants and are widely distributed worldwide. The …

Expansins are cell wall proteins that induce pH-dependent wall extension and stress
relaxation in a characteristic and unique manner. Two families of expansins are known …

Expansins are now generally accepted to be key regulators of wall extension during growth.
Several alternative roles for expansins have emerged in which the emphasis of their action …

Background Despite remarkable advances in our knowledge of epigenetically mediated
transcriptional programming of cell differentiation in plants, little is known about chromatin …

Cotton fibers elongate rapidly after initiation of elongation, eventually leading to the deposit
of a large amount of cellulose. To reveal features of cotton fiber cells at the fast elongation …

Functional genomics has transformed from futuristic concept to well‐established scientific
discipline during the last decade. Cotton functional genomics promise to enhance the …