Margaret L. Pierce

TL;DR: Because ESTs from diploid and allotetraploid Gossypium were combined in a single assembly, the assembly and associated information provide a framework for future investigation of cotton functional and evolutionary genomics.

TL;DR: The results indicate that anthocyanin production by cotton leaves in response to an unsuccessful challenge by the bacterium is a bacterial blight resistance response, but is not essential for resistance.

TL;DR: A sesquiterpene cyclase whose activity is induced in a glandless, bacterial blight-resistant line of cotton catalyses the conversion of (E,E)-farnesyl diphosphate to (+)-delta-cadinene, and Amino acid sequences of three tryptic peptides from the enzyme have been determined and are similar to known sequences in other terpenecyclases from plants.

TL;DR: Rhamnogalacturonan lyase activity was the highest in rapidly expanding 3- to 4-day-old cotyledons and gradually decreased during the slow-down in expansion over the next 2-3 days and the activity was not induced by wounding or released into the apoplast by cell damage.