cotton

Also known as cotton fiber, cotton fibre

Cotton (from Arabic qutn) is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose and may contain minor percentages of waxes, fats, pectins, and water. Under natural conditions, cotton bolls facilitate the dispersal of the seeds.

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Cotton is a soft, fluffy fiber that grows in protective cases around the seeds of certain plants and is composed almost entirely of cellulose. It has been important throughout history as a material for making textiles and other products, and it remains one of the most widely used natural fibers in the world today.

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Research

46,988 papers

Efficient genotype-independent cotton genetic transformation and genome editing.Journal of integrative plant biology · 2023Ge X, Xu J, Yang Z et al.DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13427
Molecular Regulation of Cotton Fiber Development: A Review.ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022Jan M, Liu Z, Guo C et al.DOI: 10.3390/ijms23095004
Transgenic Cotton: From Biotransformation Methods to Agricultural Application.ReviewMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2019Zhang BDOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8952-2_1
Recent progression and future perspectives in cotton genomic breeding.ReviewJournal of integrative plant biology · 2023Yang Z, Gao C, Zhang Y et al.DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13388
An Overview of Cotton Gland Development and Its Transcriptional Regulation.ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022Jan M, Liu Z, Guo C et al.DOI: 10.3390/ijms23094892
Cotton proteomics for deciphering the mechanism of environment stress response and fiber development.ReviewJournal of proteomics · 2014Zhou M, Sun G, Sun Z et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2014.03.017
Gossypium Genomics: Trends, Scope, and Utilization for Cotton Improvement.ReviewTrends in plant science · 2020Yang Z, Qanmber G, Wang Z et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.12.011
Recent advances and future perspectives in early-maturing cotton research.ReviewThe New phytologist · 2023Zhao H, Chen Y, Liu J et al.DOI: 10.1111/nph.18611

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Contents

Types
Etymology
History
Early history
Americas
South Asia
Levant
Iran
Arabia
Kingdom of Kush
China
Middle Ages
Eastern world
Europe
Early modern period
Mughal India
Egypt
Britain
East India Company
Industrial Revolution
United States
The Moon
Cultivation
Water footprint
Genetic modification
Organic production
Pests and weeds
Global pest problems
North American insect pests
Harvesting
Competition from synthetic fibers
Competition from natural fibers
Uses
Cottonseed
Cotton linters
Long staple cotton
Ornamental use
International trade
Production
Fair trade
Trading
Critical temperatures
Fiber properties
Morphology
Dead cotton
Genome
See also
References
Further reading
External links

The plant is a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, Africa (including Egypt) and India. The greatest diversity of wild cotton species is found in Mexico, followed by Australia and Africa. Cotton was independently domesticated in the Old and New Worlds.