The invention relates to the technical field of
gene engineering, in particular to application of a cotton GhGELP68D
gene in regulation and control of cotton
fiber elongation. According to the invention, the GhGELP68D
protein belonging to a GDSL family is identified in upland cotton, and the
nucleotide sequence of the coding
gene GhGELP68D is as shown in SEQ ID NO. 1. A cotton transgenic overexpression
plant is obtained through a cotton
tissue culture technology, and compared with a
wild type cotton
fiber, overexpression of GhGELP68D causes length elongation of the cotton
fiber; a silent vector is constructed through a VIGS technology, cotton is transformed, and the result shows that compared with an empty vector, the cotton fiber length of a GhGELP68D silent
plant is obviously shortened. A key gene resource is provided for cotton fiber quality improvement, remarkable
economic benefits are expected to be brought in the field of
plant production, and the application prospect is extremely wide.