Gossypium hirsutum has a large indigenous range encompassing most of Mesoamerica and
the Caribbean, where it exhibits a diverse array of morphological forms spanning the wild‐to …

Reliable information about the evolutionary and genetic relationships of various germplasm
resources is essential to the establishment of rational strategies for crop improvement. We …

The genus Gossypium has a long history of taxonomic and evolutionary study. Much of this
attention has been stimulated by the fact that the genus includes four different domesticated …

Gossypium barbadense L. is a commercially important cotton species of tropical South
American origin presently grownin many regions of the world. The species is …

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 …

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

We present an overview of the taxonomy of Gossypium L.(the cotton genus) and its
evolutionary history. Gossypium contains more than 50 recognized species, including …

The origin of domestication in Mesoamerican G. hirsutum populations is obscured by
several factors, including the absence of a clearly identified wild progenitor, a complex …

We present an overview of the evolution and diversity in Gossypium (the cotton genus). This
framework facilitates insight into fundamental aspects of plant biology, provides the …

Gossypium arboreum L. and G. herbaceum L. are the diploid species of cultivated cotton.
Little is known regarding the time and place of domestication of either species. Because G …