Its trunk bears spikes to deter attacks by animals. Although its stout trunk suggests that it is useful for timber, its wood is too soft to be very useful. Bombax ceiba grows to an average of 20 meters, with.

Ecologically, B. ceiba plays a vital role in supporting biodiversity. The tree holds immense cultural, medicinal, and economic significance.

Members of the Malvaceae family, including Corchorus spp., Gossypium spp., Bombax spp., and Ceiba spp., are important sources of natural fibers.

Understanding the Context

Here, we report the genome assembly and annotation of two natural fiber plants from the Malvaceae, Bombax ceiba and Ceiba pentandra, whose assembled genome sizes are 783.56 Mb.

Etymology The scientific name Bombax ceiba is derived from the Latin word bombax, which means cotton, and ceiba, referring to the related Genus of trees. The name reflects its soft,.

This study reports the assembly and annotation of the genomes of two natural fiber plants from the Malvaceae, Bombax ceiba and Ceiba pentandra, and provides new insights into the.

uous tree occurring in warm monsoon forests in southern Asia. Easily one of the worlds most spec-tacular flowering trees, it is famous for its large, showy, six-inch flow-ers with thick, waxy, red petals.

Key Insights

Bombax ceiba L. (the red silk cotton tree) is a large deciduous tree that is distributed in tropical and sub-tropical Asia as well as northern Australia. It has great economic and ecological.

Our findings revealed a distinct transcriptional landscape in the inner fruit epidermis, characterized by the enrichment of genes involved in hemicellulose and lignin biosynthesis.

It is a tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. It is has environmental uses and social uses, as animal food, a medicine and invertebrate food and for fuel and food.