Prof. Du Xiongming at the Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS published a paper titled "Re-sequencing the upland cotton's core collection identifies genome variation loci that influence the fiber quality and yield" in Nature Genetics. The study found more than 3.66 million SNP markers in a core collection of 419 Chinese upland cotton samples for the first time. It also identified fiber-related elite loci, providing a basis of molecular selection and genetic operation for cotton improvement.

Diagram between fiber traits and their associated loci intensity and chromosomal locations