Mapping Genes for Cotton Fiber Quality: A. thaliana as a Source of Candidate Genes

Cellulose synthesis could play an important rolein determining certain aspects of cotton fiberquality,and despite it’s abundance in nature,little is known about the biosynthesis of thispolymer.Recent advances in understanding thesynthesis of cellulose come from the analysis ofArabidopsis thaliana cellulose-deficient mutants,and the isolation of a number of genes