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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
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Navneet Kaur, John L. Snider, Andrew H. Paterson, Timothy L. Grey, Changying Li, Gurpreet Virk, Ved Parkash
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Joshua A. Udall, Evan Long, Chris Hanson, Daojun Yuan, Thiruvarangan Ramaraj, Justin L. Conover, Lei Gong, Mark A. Arick, Corrinne E. Grover, Daniel G. Peterson, Jonathan F. Wendel
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Corrinne E. Grover, Mi-Jeong Yoo, Meng Lin, Matthew D. Murphy, David B. Harker, Robert L. Byers, Alexander E. Lipka, Guanjing Hu, Daojun Yuan, Justin L. Conover, Joshua A. Udall, Andrew H. Paterson, Michael A. Gore, Jonathan F. Wendel
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Corrinne E. Grover, Mengqiao Pan, Daojun Yuan, Mark A. Arick, Guanjing Hu, Logan Brase, David M. Stelly, Zefu Lu, Robert J. Schmitz, Daniel G. Peterson, Jonathan F. Wendel, Joshua A. Udall
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Corrinne E. Grover, Daojun Yuan, Mark A. Arick, Emma R. Miller, Guanjing Hu, Daniel G. Peterson, Jonathan F. Wendel, Joshua A. Udall
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Summary: Two cultivated allopolyploid cottons, G. hirsutum and G. barbadense, underwent parallel independent domestication processes, involving significant morphological transformations. Wild forms of both species were initially domesticated in the Yucatan Peninsula and NW South America, respectively, before spreading over 4000-8000 years to encompass most of the American tropics. Genome-wide bidirectional introgression occurred between the two co-resident genomes of these allopolyploids, revealing genetic asymmetries and regions targeted during domestication.
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Corrinne E. Grover, Daojun Yuan, Mark A. Arick, Emma R. Miller, Guanjing Hu, Daniel G. Peterson, Jonathan F. Wendel, Joshua A. Udall
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Bo Li, Chunyang Fu, Jiawei Zhou, Fengjiao Hui, Qiongqiong Wang, Fuqiu Wang, Guanying Wang, Zhongping Xu, Lianlian Che, Daojun Yuan, Yanqin Wang, Xianlong Zhang, Shuangxia Jin
Summary: Establishing efficient gene editing techniques in cotton is of great importance for studying gene function. Researchers found that the pBeYDV-Cas9-KO system has higher editing efficiency and specificity when editing the GhCLA1 gene compared to the traditional CRISPR/Cas9 system.
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Corrinne E. Grover, Mark A. Arick, Adam Thrash, Joel Sharbrough, Guanjing Hu, Daojun Yuan, Samantha Snodgrass, Emma R. Miller, Thiruvarangan Ramaraj, Daniel G. Peterson, Joshua A. Udall, Jonathan F. Wendel
Summary: This study provides insights into genome evolution and domestication in cultivated diploid cotton species, Gossypium herbaceum and Gossypium arboreum, showing their independent domestication and variable permeability to introgression among chromosomes. The findings establish a foundation for understanding the contribution of introgression and/or strong parallel selection to the extensive morphological similarities shared between these species.
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(2022)