Integrated metabolomics and genomics analysis provides new insights into the fiber elongation process in Ligon lintless-2 mutant cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.).

ABSTRACT:

Background

The length of cotton fiber is an important agronomic trait characteristic that directly affects the quality of yarn and fabric. The cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) fiber mutation, Ligon lintless-2, is controlled by a single dominant gene (Li(2)) and results in extremely shortened lint fibers on mature seeds with no visible pleiotropic effects on vegetative growth and development. The Li(2) mutant phenotype provides an ideal model system to study fiber elongation. To understand metabolic processes involved in cotton fiber elongation, changes in metabolites and transcripts in the Li(2) mutant fibers were compared to wild-type fibers during development.

Results

Principal component analysis of metabolites from GC-MS data separated Li(2) mutant fiber samples from WT fib

SUBMITTER: Naoumkina M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3605188 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature