Tools to kill: Genome of one of the most destructive plant pathogenic fungi Macrophomina phaseolina | BMC Genomics | Full Text
... fiber crops (jute [5], cotton [6]), and oil crops (soybean [1], sunflower [7], sesame [8]). Despite its wide host range, ... M. phaseolina is a soil-borne plant pathogenic fungus that infects major food, fiber, and oil crops, but it is also an ... the fiber yield of jute is reduced by 30% due to this pathogen. ...
High-density linkage map construction and QTL analysis for earliness-related traits in Gossypium hirsutum L | BMC Genomics |...
... is an important renewable resource for textile fiber. To enhance understanding of the genetic basis of cotton earliness, we ... We developed an SNP-based genetic map, and this map is the first high-density genetic map for short-season cotton and has the ... Cotton earliness-related QTLs and QTL coincidence regions will provide useful materials for QTL fine mapping, gene positional ... of total cotton production [1, 2]. Short-season cotton, or early-maturity cotton, is a type of G. hirsutum with a relatively ...