HE cultivated cottons are divided into two groups: the diploid Asiatic species Gossypium arboreum and G. herbaceum and the New World amphidiploids G. hirsutum and G. barbadense. The taxa within each of these groups are readily crossed, and the F, in each case is vigorous and fertile. F, and subsequent generations, however, contain either depauperate types or plants that closely resemble one of ...

The cotton (Gossypium herbaceum L.) was analyzed for changes in physiological and morphological parameters under the influence of water stress. The deleterious effect of water stress i.e., drought in cotton plants was mainly targeted towards physiological and morphological characteristics. The gas-exchange parameters of net photosynthesis (P N ), stomatal conductance (g s ), electron transport ...

Fluorescence in situ hybridization on extended DNA (fiber-FISH) is a powerful tool in high-resolution physical mapping. To introduce this technique into cotton, we developed the technique and tested it by deliberately mapping of telomere and 5S rDNA. Results showed that telomere-length ranged from 0.80 kb to 37.86 kb in three species, G. hirsutum, G. herbaceum and G. arboreum. However, most of ...

Background and Rationale The scientific infrastructure in support of cotton research and improvement took a ‘giant leap forward’ with the release of the first ‘gold-standard’ cotton reference genome sequence on 5 January 2012. Later in 2012, two independent publications (Paterson et al. 2012; Wang et al. 2012) provided initial descriptions of the basic genome of cotton, with one of these also r...

Reniform nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis) resistance is being transferred to Gossypium hirsutum from its distant relatives. Reports of fluometuron damage to LONREN lines with nematode resistance from G. longicalyx raised concerns about introducing herbicide sensitivity from other nematode resistance sources. The research objective was to evaluate 15 sources of reniform nematode resistance fo...

WHORLED mutant in G. herbaceum has been reported from the Agricultural A Research Station, Surat, Bombay State, India, by CHAVDA and PATEL (1954). It had some phenotypic resemblance to the cluster-short branch mutant reported previously (PATEL, MUNSHI, and PATEL, 1947) the important common characteristic being short one-noded fruiting branches terminating in more than one flower bud. While the ...