Cotton plants native to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula may all look the same — unkempt and untamed bushes with flowers that shift from pale yellow to violet as pollinators visit them. But genes ...

Hawaiian cotton is actually a perennial shrub that can be used for borders or hedges or as an interesting specimen plant. The plants grow best in hot, sunny areas and only need occasional watering.

April 20, 2020 (Huntsville, Ala.) - Plant genomics researchers at HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology announce the surprising results of a cotton sequencing study led by Jane Grimwood, PhD ...

Arizona wild cotton (Gossypium thurberi) is a deciduous shrub with lovely fall color. Also called desert cotton, and Mt. Lemmon cotton, this shrub can grow up to 10 feet tall by 4 feet wide.

The plants can grow up to 6 feet tall and are found in large colonies. The leaves have a long petiole, either lance- or heart-shaped with serrated margins and downy pubescence underneath.

Wild cotton grows in the parched grasslands of the Sonoran Desert, surviving without irrigation, pesticides, or other human inputs that domesticated cotton depends on. The wild Arizona walnut, found ...

Products derived from the cotton plant show up in many items that people use daily, including blue jeans, bedsheets, paper, candles, and peanut butter. In the United States, cotton is a $7 billion ...

Leading expert on plant evolution and speciation and professor of Iowa State University, Jonathan Wendel, presented his research Thursday on cotton genomes and polyploidy in his presentation “Genes, ...

A Cotton Plant police officer acted lawfully in March when he shot and wounded a suspect who was holding a gun to the victim's head, a Woodruff County deputy prosecutor determined Monday.

SINCE the appearance, in 1877–8,, of Todaro's classic monograph on the genus Gossypium, no serious attempt has been made to deal systematically with the botany of the plants that provide the ...

ATTENTION has been directed in NATURE of January 16 to a work in which a writer on economic subjects deals with “The Wild and Cultivated Cotton Plants of the World.” The subject is as ...