Textile use of the cotton fibres from the Old World species Gossypium arboreum (Tree
Cotton) and G. herbaceum (Levant Cotton) started around eight thousand years ago and …

The cotton plant was recorded from Egypt in the Dynastic period as early as 2500 BC.
Cotton seeds were recovered from Nubia (Egypt) in 1964. Many writers and relief sculptures …

The occurrences of cotton in texts and in the archaeological record (seeds, fibres and
textiles) demonstrate the emergence of cotton production centres in north-eastern Africa and …

Recent investigations on the classification, geographical distribution and relationships of
wild species of Gossypium in Africa and Asia have indicated that the Arabian and Red Sea …

The “Egyptian cotton” is a peculiar type of cotton that is characterized by high quality, and
gained a world-wide reputation for more than a century and half as being of the highest lint …

Cotton has played a great role in the global and Indian economies since immemorial time.
The antiquity of cotton in the Indian subcontinent has been traced to the 4th millennium BC …

The history of the domestication of cotton is very complex and is not known exactly. Cotton
has been found during archaeological research at sites in both the old and new world …

The perennial forms of Gossypium arboreum in Africa are assigned to two groups: race
soudanaise in the Sudan and West Africa and race indicum on the East African coast and in …

Archaeological evidence indicates that cotton has been used by humans for more than 4000
yr. The history of cotton cultivation is at least 3000 yr old. There are four cultivated cotton …

Cotton belongs to the genus Gossypium L., which comprises 50 species, 45 of which are
diploid, the remaining five being tetraploid. Two A-genome diploid and two AD-genome …