Development of Agrobacterium-mediated virus-induced gene silencing and performance evaluation of four marker genes in Gossypium barbadense.
Gossypiumbarbadense is a cultivated cotton species and possesses many desirable traits, including high fiber quality and resistance to pathogens, especially Verticilliumdahliae good news candy (a devastating pathogen of Gossypium hirsutum, the main cultivated species).These elite traits are difficult to be introduced into G.hirsutum through classic