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Robert J. Wright

Researcher at Texas Tech University

Publications -  36
Citations -  4266

Robert J. Wright is an academic researcher from Texas Tech University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Quantitative trait locus & Gossypium. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 35 publications receiving 3929 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert J. Wright include Texas AgriLife Research & Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory.

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Repeated polyploidization of Gossypium genomes and the evolution of spinnable cotton fibres

Andrew H. Paterson, +77 more
- 20 Dec 2012 - 
TL;DR: It is shown that an abrupt five- to sixfold ploidy increase approximately 60 million years (Myr) ago, and allopolyploidy reuniting divergent Gossypium genomes approximately 1–2 Myr ago, conferred about 30–36-fold duplication of ancestral angiosperm genes in elite cottons, genetic complexity equalled only by Brassica among sequenced angiosperms.
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Polyploid formation created unique avenues for response to selection in gossypium (cotton)

TL;DR: The findings impel molecular dissection of the roles of divergent subgenomes in quantitative inheritance in many other polyploids and further exploration of both "synthetic" polyploid and exotic diploid genotypes for agriculturally useful variation.
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Comparative Genomics of Plant Chromosomes

TL;DR: Comparative genomics, the study of similarities and differences in structure and function of the hereditary information in different taxa, uses molecular tools to investigate notions that far preceded the discovery that DNA was the hereditary molecule.