Yajun Liang1,2,#, Juyun Zheng1,#, Junduo Wang1,#, Zhaolong Gong1, Zhiqiang Li3, Ling Min4, Zeliang Zhang2, Zhiwei Sang2, Yanying Qu2, Xueyuan Li1,*, Quanjia Chen2,*
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.12, pp. 3345-3357, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.028755
- 28 December 2023
Abstract Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is the most important plant producing natural fibers for the textile industry. In this study, we first investigated the phenotypic variation of seven agronomic traits of 273 diverse cotton accessions in the years 2017 and 2018, which were from 18 geographical regions. We found large variations among the traits in different geographical regions and only half of the traits in either years 2017 or 2018 followed a normal distribution. We then genotyped the collection with 81,612 high quality SNPs. Phylogenetic tree and population structure revealed a diverse genetic structure of the core… More >