Xuexia Ma,Yezhang Ding,Baoliang Zhou,Wangzhen Guo,Yanhui Lv,Xiefei Zhu,Tianzhen Zhang National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics , Germplasm Enhancement,Cotton Research Institute,Nanjing Agricultural University,Nanjing 210095,China
Abstract:
Asiatic cotton(Gossypium arboreum L.) is an Old World cultivated cotton species.The sinense race was planted extensively in China.Due to the advances in spinning technology during the last century,the species was replaced by the New World allotetraploid cotton G.hirsutum L.Gossypium arboreum is still grown in India and Pakistan and also used as an elite in current cotton breeding programs.In addition,G.arboreum serves as a model for genomic research in Gossypium.In the present study,we generated an A-genome...