Distribution, collection, and evaluation of Gossypium

AE Percival, RJ Kohel - Advances in agronomy, 1990 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Cotton is of enormous importance to the world today. It is not only
important economically in international trade, but is also used to clothe a substantial portion …

Molecular marker diversity and field performance in commercial cotton cultivars evaluated in the southwestern USA

J Zhang, Y Lu, RG Cantrell, E Hughs - Crop Science, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic diversity in modern upland cotton cultivars (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is thought to be
narrow, thus limiting genetic advance. Robust information on the genetic relatedness among …

Introgression genetics and breeding between Upland and Pima cotton: a review

J Zhang, RG Percy, JC McCarty - Euphytica, 2014 - Springer
The narrow genetic base of elite Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) germplasm has
been a significant impediment to sustained progress in the development of cotton cultivars to …

Molecular dissection of interspecific variation between Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense (cotton) by a backcross-self approach: I. Fiber elongation

P Chee, X Draye, CX Jiang, L Decanini… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2005 - Springer
The current study is the first installment of an effort to explore the secondary gene pool for
the enhancement of Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) germplasm. We developed …

A new interspecific, Gossypium hirsutum × G. barbadense, RIL population: towards a unified consensus linkage map of tetraploid cotton

JM Lacape, J Jacobs, T Arioli, R Derijcker… - Theoretical and applied …, 2009 - Springer
We report the development of a new interspecific cotton recombinant inbred line (RIL)
population of 140 lines deriving from an interspecific cross between Gossypium hirsutum …

Microsatellite diversity in tetraploid Gossypium germplasm: assembling a highly informative genotyping set of cotton SSRs

JM Lacape, D Dessauw, M Rajab, JL Noyer, B Hau - Molecular Breeding, 2007 - Springer
A series of 320 mapped simple sequence repeats (SSRs) have been used to screen the
allelic diversity of tetraploid Gossypium species. Fourty-seven genotypes were analyzed …