Breeding Next-Generation Naturally Colored Cotton

Jie Sun; Yuqiang Sun; Qian-Hao Zhu

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2021.03.007

Breeding Next-Generation Naturally Colored Cotton

Trends Plant Sci. 2021 Jun;26(6):539-542. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.03.007. Epub 2021 Apr 12.

Authors

Jie Sun¹, Yuqiang Sun², Qian-Hao Zhu³

Affiliations

¹ College of Agriculture/The Key Laboratory of Oasis Eco-Agriculture, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832000, Xinjiang, China. Electronic address: sunjie@shzu.edu.cn.
² School of Life Sciences and Medicine/Plant Genomics and Molecular Improvement of Colored Fiber Lab, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, Zhejiang, China.
³ Agriculture and Food, CSIRO, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. Electronic address: qianhao.zhu@csiro.au.

PMID: 33858744
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.03.007

Abstract

Use of naturally colored cotton (NCC) in the textile industry is limited due to its inferior fiber quality. Recent advances in understanding pigmentation in NCC fiber and the genetic relationship between pigmentation and fiber development may overcome this hindrance and can guide developing high fiber quality and yield NCC.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Cotton Fiber*
Gossypium / genetics
Pigmentation*