AUTHOR=Pan Yuxin , Meng Fanbo , Wang Xiyin TITLE=Sequencing Multiple Cotton Genomes Reveals Complex Structures and Lays Foundation for Breeding JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science VOLUME=11 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.560096 DOI=10.3389/fpls.2020.560096 ISSN=1664-462X ABSTRACT=
Cotton is a major fiber plant, which provides raw materials for clothing, protecting humans from the harsh environment of cold or hot weathers, enriching the culture and custom of human societies. Due to its importance, the diploid and tetraploid genomes of different cotton plants have been repeatedly sequenced to obtain their complete and fine genome sequences. These valuable genome data sets revealed the evolutionary past of the cotton plants, which were recursively affected by polyploidization, with a decaploidization contributing to the formation of the genus