The Gossypium hirsutum gene pool from Mexico is one of the primary sources for
improvement of most of the Acala and Upland cotton growing in the world today. Mexico is …

Interspecific hybridization has contributed significantly to land diversity, species evolution,
and crops' domestication, including upland cotton, the cultivated form of Gossypium …

Transposable elements (TEs) are drivers of evolution resulting in episodic surges of genetic
innovation and genomic reorganization (Oliver KR, Greene WK. 2009. TEs: powerful …

Domesticated cotton species provide raw material for the majority of the world's textile
industry. Two independent domestication events have been identified in allopolyploid …

Amplified fragment length polymorphism fingerprinting was applied to survey the genetic
diversity of primitive South American Gossypium barbadense cotton for establishing a …

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 …

Gossypium mustelinum, one of five tetraploid species in the cotton genus, is geographically
restricted to a few states in NE Brazil. Allozyme analysis was used to assess levels and …

This chapter deals with the biological diversity that exists in the genus Gossypium, the genus
that includes the cultivated cottons and numerous wild relatives. The diversity is considered …

Polyploidy often confers emergent properties, such as the higher fibre productivity and
quality of tetraploid cottons than diploid cottons bred for the same environments. Here we …

Abstract Cotton (Gossypium spp.), a leading natural fiber, is a major cash crop in the world
and is grown commercially in more than 50 countries. China, India, USA, Pakistan and …