B. Todd Campbell

TL;DR: The results suggest that many cotton aquaporin genes have high sequence similarity and diverse roles as evidenced by analysis of sequences and their expression, which support the idea that the genes identified in this study represent an important genetic resource providing potential targets to modify the water use properties of cotton.

TL;DR: A set of 381 accessions comprising 378 Upland (Gossypium hirsutum L.) and 3 G. barbadense L. accessions of the United States cotton belt were genotyped using 120 genome-wide SSR markers to establish the genetic diversity and population structure in tetraploid cotton.

TL;DR: The genes identified in this study will provide candidate targets to manipulate the water use characteristics of cotton at the molecular level and demonstrate complex mechanisms involved with polyploid cotton’s transcriptome response to naturally occurring field water deficit stress.

TL;DR: This work constitutes the first application of the newly published diploid D5 Gossypium raimondii sequence in the study of tetraploid AD1 upland cotton RNA-seq transcriptome analysis, and will facilitate efforts to understand the complex responses governing transcriptomic regulatory mechanisms.

TL;DR: High-density physical and genetic-linkage maps of wheat homoeologous group 3 chromosomes are generated to reveal the physical locations of genes/QTLs controlling yield and its component traits, as well as agronomic traits, to obtain a precise estimate of recombination for the corresponding regions and to enrich the QTL-containing regions with markers.