TY - JOUR AU - Gilbert, Matthew K. AU - Turley, Rickie B. AU - Kim, Hee Jin AU - Li, Ping AU - Thyssen, Gregory AU - Tang, Yuhong AU - Delhom, Christopher D. AU - Naoumkina, Marina AU - Fang, David D. PY - 2013 DA - 2013/06/17 TI - Transcript profiling by microarray and marker analysis of the short cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) fiber mutant Ligon lintless-1 (Li1) JO - BMC Genomics SP - 403 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - Cotton fiber length is very important to the quality of textiles. Understanding the genetics and physiology of cotton fiber elongation can provide valuable tools to the cotton industry by targeting genes or other molecules responsible for fiber elongation. Ligon Lintless-1 (Li1) is a monogenic mutant in Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) which exhibits an early cessation of fiber elongation resulting in very short fibers (< 6 mm) at maturity. This presents an excellent model system for studying the underlying molecular and cellular processes involved with cotton fiber elongation. Previous reports have characterized Li1at early cell wall elongation and during later secondary cell wall synthesis, however there has been very limited analysis of the transition period between these developmental time points. SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-403 DO - 10.1186/1471-2164-14-403 ID - Gilbert2013 ER -