Claim · model-written summary
Heat stress led to significant yield losses in cotton in field assays.
- Taxon
- Gossypium hirsutum L.
Gossypium hirsutume0 - Treatment
- heat stresse1
- Outcome
- yield lossese1
- Direction
- decreaseinferrede1
- Qualifier
- significante1
- Setting
- Field-based assayse1
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is particularly susceptible to heat stress”
e1“Field-based assays revealed that heat stress compromised cotton productivity by impairing pollen viability, reducing chlorophyll biosynthesis and leaf area, and altering biomass partitioning, leading to significant yield losses”
Title
Transcriptomic analysis of response to high-temperature stress in cotton
Xin Wang; Changwei Ge; Shaodong Liu; et al. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 2026. doi:10.1016/j.plaphy.2026.111454
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- Intervention effect Heat stress reduced chlorophyll biosynthesis and leaf area of cotton in field assays.
- Intervention effect Heat stress impaired pollen viability of cotton in field assays.
- Intervention effect Heat stress altered biomass partitioning in cotton.
- Intervention effect Heat stress increased lipid peroxidation and osmoregulatory accumulation in cotton under controlled conditions.
- Intervention effect Heat stress reduced antioxidant enzyme activities in cotton under controlled conditions.
- Intervention effect Heat stress decreased chlorophyll content in cotton under controlled conditions.
- Observation Transcriptome sequencing identified 5211 differentially expressed genes in heat-stressed cotton.
- Observation The raffinose metabolic process was significantly activated in heat-stressed cotton transcriptomes.
- Observation GhRS2 and GhGOLS1 were key upregulated genes under heat stress.
- Association The expression of GhRS2 and GhGOLS1 corresponded with increased raffinose content in cotton.
- Intervention effect Virus-induced silencing of GhRS2 or GhGOLS1 reduced raffinose accumulation in cotton under heat stress.
- Intervention effect Virus-induced silencing of GhRS2 or GhGOLS1 impaired antioxidant enzyme activities in cotton under heat stress.
- Intervention effect Virus-induced silencing of GhRS2 or GhGOLS1 exacerbated oxidative damage in cotton under heat stress.
- Intervention effect Exogenous raffinose alleviated heat-induced damage in cotton.
- Intervention effect Exogenous raffinose improved leaf water status of heat-stressed cotton.
- Intervention effect Exogenous raffinose enhanced survival rates of heat-stressed cotton.
- Intervention effect Exogenous raffinose promoted biomass accumulation of heat-stressed cotton.
- Mechanism The GhRS2/GhGOLS1-mediated raffinose biosynthesis pathway positively regulates thermotolerance in cotton.
- Mechanism A mechanistic link exists between raffinose metabolism and antioxidant responses under heat stress in cotton.