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Fatty acid unsaturation improves germination of upland cotton (
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- Effect of High Temperature and Drought on the Fatty Acid Composition of Oil of Different Linseed Varieties and Its Association with Gene Expression.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Sustainable industrial crop-based strategies for cocoa butter substitutes: advances in plant, microbial, and lipid engineering.Food chemistry: X · 2026Review
- Bivalent chromatin states and epigenetic priming in cotton: the role of H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 in cold stress memory and resilience.Epigenetics & chromatin · 2026Review
- Investigation of Physiological Responses of Different Soybean Cultivars Under Drought Stress.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Genome-wide association study identifies key loci and candidate genes for seed vigor in upland cotton (Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Enhancing antioxidant defense systems and regulating fatty acid unsaturation: Salicylic acid-mediated alleviation of low-temperature stress in Pitaya seedlings.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Time-course transcriptome analysis reveals gene co-expression networks and transposable element responses to cold stress in cotton.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- Multiomic analyses reveal transcription factors involved in the fatty acid biosynthesis pathway under cold stress in upland cotton (Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Multi-omics insights into the energy compensation of rumen microbiota of grazing yaks in cold season.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Introduction: The level of fatty acid unsaturation in seeds is one of the major determinants of cold germination ability, particularly in oilseeds. The presence of Methodology: To investigate the effects of fatty acid unsaturation on the ability of cotton seeds to germinate under cold conditions, four recombinant inbred lines (RILs) of cotton with unique fatty acid profiles were evaluated using a set of developmental and biochemical assays at 12°C (critically low temperature), 15°C (cardinal minimum temperature) and 30°C (optimum temperature). Furthermore, whole seed lipidome profiling using liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry was done to compare the lipid compositional changes at 12°C and 30°C after imbibing cotton seeds of all the six genotypes for 0 hours, 3 hours and 6 hours. Results and discussion: The RILs with higher unsaturation/saturation ratios registered robust germination performance, lower solute leakage, and optimum water uptake rates under cold stress. Imbibition at 30°C for 8 hours before cold exposure significantly improved the germination of cold sensitive genotypes, indicating that the first few hours of water uptake are critical for cold stress. Whole seed lipidome profiling of all the genotypes specifically associated cold germination ability with higher unsaturation levels of phospholipids during early imbibition. The presence of
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