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 ...

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 ...

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.

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Mark Dawson estimated in his tweet that if there were 10 cotton plants per metre and each plant sold for $22 that would equate to $22,000 per hectare. However in reality growers have been ...

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 ...

Cotton growers welcomed the potential applications. "I would definitely plant it," said Donny Lassiter, a grower from Conway, N.C. "This adds even more uses for the plant.