… The locally maintained cottons from coastal Peru display a distinct genetic diversity that … to
be the center of the primitive domesticated G. barbadense cotton from where it spread over the …

… domestication … of genetic diversity in cultivated stocks of both species because of the historical
trend toward depletion ofthe genetic resource represented by Old World cultivated cottons. …

… ’), formed a single cluster with exceedingly limited genetic diversity (with many pairwise
similarity indices >0.96) We concluded that these accessions were derived from the same …

… Most common are “dooryard” cottons, which are commensals … These cottons also are
considered a frequent source of feral … cottons appear to have been introduced, domesticated forms…

… of cotton domestication and diffusion in the Americas, a seemingly unlikely story entailing
parallel domestication … ) and by sequential reductions of genetic diversity and allelic richness (…

… The major drawback of domestication is the lack of genetic diversity. This lack of genetic
diversity is observed more in Gossypium hirsutum L. cultivars characterizing upland cotton than …

… cotton biology, its diversity and domestication, genome assembly, constraints in its production
and methods to improve cotton … The genetic diversity of 40 releases from a Pakistani cotton …

… both the phenotypic and genetic levels, a process usually accompanied by an overall
reduction in genetic diversity in the domesticate relative to its ancestral gene pool. In some crops, …

… and domestication of cultivated upland cotton. Unlike rice, where the domesticated species
… 2009), the domestication history of upland cotton spans just several 100 years. No separate …

… Here we explore our understanding of cotton evolution and diversity… the importance of this
diversity for agronomic improvement. … domestication resulted in a reduction in genetic diversity; …