Improved cotton yield: Can we achieve this goal by regulating the coordination of source and sink?

Aizhi Qin; Oluwaseun Olayemi Aluko; Zhixin Liu; Jincheng Yang; Mengke Hu; Liping Guan; Xuwu Sun

doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1136636

Improved cotton yield: Can we achieve this goal by regulating the coordination of source and sink?

Front Plant Sci. 2023 Mar 29:14:1136636. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1136636. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Aizhi Qin¹, Oluwaseun Olayemi Aluko¹, Zhixin Liu¹, Jincheng Yang¹, Mengke Hu¹, Liping Guan¹, Xuwu Sun¹

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China.

Abstract

Cotton is one of the major cash crops globally. It is characterized by determinate growth and multiple fruiting, which makes the source-sink contradiction more obvious. Coordination between source and sink is crucial for normal growth, yield, and quality of cotton. Numerous studies reported how the assimilate transport and distribution under varying environmental cues affected crop yields. However, less is known about the functional mechanism underlying the assimilate transport between source and sink, and how their distribution impacts cotton growth. Here, we provided an overview of the assimilate transport and distribution mechanisms , and discussed the regulatory mechanisms involved in source-sink balance in relation to cotton yield. Therefore, this review enriched our knowledge of the regulatory mechanism involved in source-sink relationship for improved cotton yield.

Keywords: coordination; cotton; crop yield; regulation mechanism; source–sink relationship.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

This research was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2022YFD1200300) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31670233).