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Cotton Fiber Bioscience Research Unit

 

 

 

 

 

Our Mission:

 

 

Develops innovations in cotton fiber that will increase its value. The unit programs align with bioenergy priorities, as well as general agricultural sustainability needs to decrease our dependence on petroleum for production and maximum utilization of natural fiber products. Applied disciplines include genomics, biotechnology, molecular biology, plant physiology, chemistry and biochemistry. Specific research areas include better understanding of the biology of fiber development such as gene expression in the fiber, generating new genetic and genomic knowledge of value-added fiber traits, and developing breeding and selection tools and innovative methods to enable "value-capture" from improved cotton fiber traits or products.

Major Accomplishments in the past 5 years:

1) Assisted to develop a 63K single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array for cotton; 2) developed DNA markers associated to the superior fiber strength quantitative trait loci (QTL) from the cotton line MD52ne; 3) identified major QTL for cotton fiber strength and length; and 4) identified the causative gene of the Ligon-lintless 1 (Li1) short fiber mutation, of immature fiber mutation, and of sulfonylurea herbicide tolerance in cotton.

  

Research Leader

 

 

                                                                                                    

Dr. David Fang

 

david.fang@ars.usda.gov

 

Phone: (504) 286-4527
Fax: (504) 286-4250
Room 3006
1100 ROBERT E LEE BLVD
NEW ORLEANS, LA, 70124