Sarfraz, Zareen
Iqbal, Muhammad Shahid
Pan, Zhaoe
Jia, Yinhua
He, Shoupu
Wang, Qinglian
Qin, Hongde
Liu, Jinhai
Liu, Hui
Yang, Jun
Ma, Zhiying
Xu, Dongyong
Yang, Jinlong
Zhang, Jinbiao
Gong, Wenfang
Geng, Xiaoli
Li, Zhikun
Cai, Zhongmin
Zhang, Xuelin
Zhang, Xin
Huang, Aifen
Yi, Xianda
Zhou, Guanyin
Li, Lin
Zhu, Haiyong
Qu, Yujie
Pang, Baoyin
Wang, Liru
Iqbal, Muhammad Sajid
Jamshed, Muhammad
Sun, Junling
Du, Xiongming http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1901-0773
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31571716)
The National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0101401)
The National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0100203)
The National Science and Technology Support Program of China (2013BAD01B03)
Article History
Received: 5 April 2018
Accepted: 27 September 2018
First Online: 29 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval does not apply to this study as it has not directly involved humans or animals. The seed material used in this study was taken from Gene Bank of Institute of Cotton Research (ICR), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). The field experiments were conducted in accordance with the institutional and national guidelines set for the research station/institutes involved in the current study. There was no need to get specific/additional permission to conduct the field research or genotyping analyses. The field studies did not involve endangered or protected species.
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