The evolution of spinnable cotton fiber entailed prolonged development and a novel metabolism.
A central question in evolutionary biology concerns the developmental processes by which new phenotypes arise. An exceptional example of evolutionary innovation is the single-celled seed trichome in Gossypium ("cotton fiber"). We have used fiber development in Gossypium as a system to unde...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2008-02-01
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| Series: | PLoS Genetics |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2222923?pdf=render |