Greetings to All ICGI members! We hope everyone is doing well. You are welcomed to attend 2014 biennial conference of the International Cotton Genome Initiative (ICGI), to be held from 25-28 September 2014 in Wuhan, Hubei, China, hosted by Huazhong Agricultural University. I kindly remind you one week left for the deadline(April 30) to register for this conference. So, please register and submit your abstract as soon as possible at http://www.cottongen.org/icgi/conference_2014/home. In the conference, we will have following plenary talks: A draft genome of the extra long staple cotton Gossypium barbadense, Comparative and functional analyses of the cotton A- and D- genomes Genomics and genomics-based selection breeding after sequencing cultivated tetraploid cotton genomes Genes for fiber functions etc. We are looking forward to seeing you at the 2014 ICGI Conference. Sincerely, Prof. Dr.Tianzhen Zhang ICGI Chair cotton 2014-04-24