This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31690092,31788103,31571251);the National Key R&D Program of China(2016YFD0100500);the Ministry of Agriculture of China(2016ZX08010002,2016ZX08005003).
Plant cell growth involves a complex interplay among cell-wall expansion, biosynthesis, and, in specific tissues, secondary cell wall (SCW) deposition, yet the coordination of these processes remains elusive. Cotton f...
The membrane lipids from fast-elongating wild-type cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) fibers at 10 days post- anthesis, wild-type ovules with fiber cells removed, and ovules from the fuzzless-lintless mutant harvested at t...
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.
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