Somewhat remarkably, given its importance in human commence, new species of cotton continue to be discovered. Our lab is among the few worldwide that maintains an active interest in fundamental plant exploration and discovery in the cotton genus.
One of the important realizations to emerge from numerous studies of polyploid plants is that polyploid creates massive alterations in gene expression.
One of the exciting opportunities stimulated by the convergence of modern genomic approaches with other areas of biology is that of resolving the enigmatic processes by which new phenotypes arise.
Because mRNA abundance and protein amounts often are poorly related, it is important to extend the evolutionary analysis of polyploidy and domestication to the proteomic level.
