T.T.gratefully acknowledges partial support by the NAIST;Research activity of T.T.was also supported by the JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B(19H03249)and C(19K06723).
Understanding metabolic shifts and the regulatory network during fleshy fruiting in fruit crops is highly valuable for the design of crop improvement targeting better plant growth,fruit yield,stress tolerance,fruit sh...
This research was supported by grants from the State Key Basic Research Program of China (2010CB126004);the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-EW-N-03); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31028003), and the CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams.We thank Z. Jeff Chen and C.-H. Li for their helpful discussion. We thank T.-H. Zhang for his help on tractility assay. B.X., J.-Y.G., and X.-Y.C. designed the research; B.X., J.-Y.G., and B.Z. performed most of the experiments; X.-X.S., L.-J.W., and F.-G.L. did the cotton transformation and field trials; S.Y. and C.-Q.Y. compiled the literature data; B.X., X.-Y.C., and C.-J.L. wrote the manuscript. No conflict of interest declared.
Plant growth requires cell wall extension. The cotton AtRD22-Like I gene GhRDL1, predominately expressed in elongating fiber cells, encodes a BURP domain-containing protein. Here, we show that GhRDL1 is localized in c...