Verticillium wilt of cotton is a widespread and destructive disease that is caused by the fungus pathogen Verticillium dahliae. Although no cotton cultivar is immune to the disease, some genotypes exhibit superior wilt tolerance. To gain an insight into the molecular mechanisms responsible for wilt tolerance, we employed the method of suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) to isolate genes...

As the longest known single-celled trichomes, cotton (Gossypium L.) fibers constitute a classic model system to investigate cell initiation and elongation. In this study, we used a high-throughput transcriptome sequencing technology to identify fiber-initiation-related single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers and differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the wild-type (WT) Upland cotton...

Cotton production in India by the vast majority comes from cotton hybrids whose genetic purity is of great significance seed chain and trade. Therefore, there a need to develop rapid, reliable reproducible technique assess as traditional, morphological traits-based ‘Grow-Out Test’ resource intensive, time consuming, tedious not an infallible procedure. In this regard, study was planned understa...

A greenhouse study was conducted to investigate the roles that host plant resistance and soil potassium (K) levels play in affecting Rotylenchulus reniformis Linford Oliveira (Tylenchida: Hoplolaimidae) (RN) populations early season cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) growth. Two upland, RN-resistant lines (G. barbadense introgressions: 08SS110-NE06.OP 08SS100), a genetic standard (Deltapine 16) com...

Cotton plant is produced with seeds. However, its genetic structure suitable for vegetative production. In this study, rooting method used to propagate cotton as vegetative. Experiment was conducted in climate chamber at East Mediterranean Transitional Zone Agricultural Research Institute 2020. Stems of Askabat 100 (G. barbadenseL.), Stoneville 468 hirsutumL.) cultivars and their F1hybrid were ...

Agricultural crops experience diverse mechanical stimuli, which may affect their growth and development. This study was conducted to investigate the effects of mechanical stresses caused by hanging labels from the flower petioles (HLFP) on plant shape and cotton yields in four cotton varieties: CCRI 41, DP 99B, CCRC 21, and BAI 1. HLFP significantly reduced plant height by between 7.8% and 36.5...

Wild cotton germplasm resources are largely underutilized because of photoperiod-dependent flowering of "exotic" cottons. The objectives of this work were to explore the genome-wide effect of induced mutation in photoperiod-converted induced cotton mutants, estimating the genetic change between mutant and wild-type cottons using simple sequence repeats (SSRs) as well as understand the pattern o...