Thanks for your submission Greg. I will enter these details and PAG will send a link for you to add the author details.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM Thyssen, Gregory - REE-ARS < gregory.thyssen@usda.gov> wrote:
Dear Vasu Kuraparthy
Thank you for your invitation to present a talk at ICGI at PAG in San Diego 2027.
Time permitting, I may also add some other recent work.
The main part would be this recently published paper that has not yet been presented as a talk.
Gregory Thyssen
Title:
Breaking the repulsive linkage between fiber strength and yield in a cotton (*Gossypium hirsutum* L.) MAGIC population suggests dampening starvation responses can increase yield
Gregory N. Thyssen*, David D. Fang, Linghe Zeng, B. Todd Campbell, Don C. Jones, Jack C. McCarty, Johnie N. Jenkins
*Presenting and corresponding author
Publication:
Industrial Crops and Products 241 (2026):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926669026002438
Abstract:
High yield is one of the most desirable traits in crops. A negative correlation between yield and other desirable traits in crops may be due to either pleiotropy or repulsive linkage. Multi-parent advanced generation inter-cross (MAGIC) populations create opportunities for novel combinations of alleles of genes from several parents to exist in one recombinant inbred line. Here, we describe the breaking of the repulsive linkage between yield (YLD) and cotton fiber strength (STR) at Chr. Ghi_A07:90 Mb in a Gossypium hirsutum L. MAGIC population. The loss of a PHL3-like gene (Ghi_A07G11906) may dampen the phosphate (Pi) starvation response and attenuate a reallocation of resources to root growth at the expense of vegetative and reproductive growth, and thus a reduction in yield. Targeted mutagenesis of transcription factors that modulate abiotic stress responses may be a generalizable strategy for yield improvement in farmed crops.
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Gregory Thyssen, PhD
Computational Biologist
Cotton Fiber Bioscience and Utilization Unit
Southern Regional Research Center
Agricultural Research Service
1100 Allen Toussaint Blvd, New Orleans, LA, 70124 https://www.google.com/maps/search/1100+Allen+Toussaint+Blvd,+New+Orleans,+LA,+70124?entry=gmail&source=g
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dptAshMAAAAJ
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Dear ICGI Community,
The International Cotton Genome Initiative (ICGI) annual workshop during the Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG 34) in San Diego, California, will be held on January 10, 2027.
I strongly encourage your active participation in this year’s exciting session. If you are interested in presenting your research at this workshop, please send your presentation title and an abstract to me ( vkurapa@ncsu.edu).
Early registration deadline: October 31st, 2026
Thank you for your continued engagement and contributions to the ICGI community. We look forward to seeing you at PAG 34!
Best regards,
Vasu Kuraparthy
Co-Chair & Chair Elect, ICGI
Crop & Soil Sciences Department
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695
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