Publications by authors named "Xingxian Fu"
Article Synopsis
- Cotton is a major commercial crop that breeders are trying to improve for better fiber yield and quality, with recent studies showing that auxin promotion in ovules can enhance these traits.
- Transgenic cottons that manipulate auxin transport via specific genes improved fiber length but initially performed poorly in the field due to insufficient auxin supply.
- By integrating enhanced auxin synthesis through genetic crossing, scientists achieved significant increases in seedcotton yield and fiber quality, demonstrating a promising strategy for cotton genetic improvement over a three-year field trial.
PIN-FORMED- (PIN) mediated polar auxin transport plays a predominant role in most auxin-triggered organogenesis in plants. Global control of PIN polarity at the plasma membrane contributes to the essential establishment of auxin maxima in most multicellular tissues. However, establishment of auxin maxima in single cells is poorly understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCotton fibers, single seed trichomes derived from ovule epidermal cells, are the major source of global textile fibers. Fiber-specific promoters are desirable to study gene function and to modify fiber properties during fiber development. Here, we revealed that was expressed preferentially in developing fibers.
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