Comparing to Gossypium hirsutum, G. barbadense cotton lines have superior fiber quality but lower fiber yield. Here, the authors construct pangenome using 12 newly assembled G. barbadense genomes and 17 publicly tetraploid cotton genomes and reveal yield- and fiber-related diversity and interspecific gene flow.
- Qingying Meng
- Peihao Xie
- Daojun Yuan
