The genomic DNA from cotton plant leaf tissues was isolated using the cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) method [51 (link)]. The DNA concentration was calculated by measuring the absorbance of 1 µL of the samples at 260/280 nm using the NanoDrop Eight spectrophotometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA). DNA samples were diluted to a working concentration of 25 ng/µL. A total of 72 SSR (simple sequence repeat) markers were selected from CottonGen the cotton marker database (https://www.cottongen.org/data/markers) (accessed on 20 February 2022) [52 (link)]. PCR-based SSR genotyping was conducted as described previously [6 (link),53 (link),54 (link)]. The construction and visualization of the phylogenetic tree was performed using NCSS 12.
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