Phenomics and transcriptomics analyses reveal deposition of suberin and lignin in the short fiber cell walls produced from a wild cotton species and two mutants

• Hee Jin Kim ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: heejin.kim@usda.gov

  Affiliation USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center, Cotton Fiber Bioscience Research Unit, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2750-1089

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• Yongliang Liu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center, Cotton Structure and Quality Research Unit, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

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• Gregory N. Thyssen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center, Cotton Fiber Bioscience Research Unit, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1119-1431

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• Marina Naoumkina,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center, Cotton Fiber Bioscience Research Unit, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6094-8982

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• James Frelichowski

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USDA-ARS-SPARC, Crop Germplasm Research Unit, College Station, TX, United States of America

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