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 ...

Cotton fibres are unusually long, single-celled epidermal seed trichomes and a model for plant cell growth, but little is known about the regulation of fibre cell elongation. Here we report that a ...

Tma12 binds to the chitin polymers that are a major component of insects’ exoskeletons. After isolating the gene that encodes Tma12, the authors created a transgenic cotton plant that expressed it.

China announced earlier this week that a cotton seed on board Chang’e 4 had sprouted, marking the first time that biological matter had been grown on the moon (albeit inside a specialized ...