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.

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 ...

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 ...

After isolating the gene that encodes Tma12, the authors created a transgenic cotton plant that expressed it. They inserted the gene in up to 87 different locations, but only 16 of these ...

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, ...