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GbEXPATR, a species-specific expansin, enhances cotton fibre elongation through cell wall restructuring.
Plant biotechnology journal - 1 Mar 2016
Li Yang, Tu Lili, Pettolino Filomena A, Ji Shengmei, Hao Juan, Yuan Daojun, Deng Fenglin, Tan Jiafu, Hu Haiyan, Wang Qing, Llewellyn Danny J, Zhang Xianlong
Abstract excerpt
Cotton provides us the most important natural fibre. High fibre quality is the major goal of cotton breeding, and introducing genes conferring longer, finer and stronger fibre from Gossypium barbadense to Gossypium hirsutum is an important breeding strategy. We previously analysed the G. barbadense fibre development mechanism by gene expression profiling and found two homoeologous fibre-specific α-expansins from...
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