ICAC Researcher of the Year 2012

摘要

With a high quality reference sequence of the cotton D genome in hand that ranks among the best assembled plant genomes, together with draft sequences of the A, D, F and AD tetraploid genomes of G. hirsutum and G. barbadense now published, what are the next steps toward translating the promise of genomics into impact on both fundamental science and on-farm cotton productivity and quality?In my view, two questions are central, each with several dimensions as follows: