Xinping Zhao

TL;DR: Identification of SSRs within 312 RFLP sequences plus direct mapping of 124 SSRs and exploration for CAPS and SNPs illustrate the “portability” of these STS loci across populations and detection systems useful for marker-assisted improvement of the world's leading fiber crop.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the DNA prepared by this technique is suitable for plant genome analysis by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and for the construction of yeast and bacterial artificial chromosomes.

TL;DR: Copy-number estimation and DNA sequencing were conducted for a phylogenetically well-characterized set of 16 diploid species of cotton and 4 species representing allopolyploid derivatives of the diploids, indicating that interlocus concerted evolution has not been an important factor in the evolution of these arrays.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the majority, although notall, G. hirsutum interspersed repetitive elements haveundergone intergenomic concerted evolution following polyploidization and that this has involved colonization of the D-subgenome by A-sub genome elements and/or replacement of D- subgenome elements byelements of the A- Subgenometype.

TL;DR: Minimal variation in repertoire and overall copy number of repetitive DNA elements among different tetraploid cotton species is consistent with the hypothesis of a relatively recent origin of tetraPloid cottons.