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Genetic diversity of arboreal cotton populations of the Brazilian semiarid: a remnant primary gene pool for cotton cultivars.
Genetics and molecular research : GMR - 27 Sept 2017
de Menezes I P P, Hoffmann L V, de Lima T H, da Silva A R, Lucena V S, Barroso P A V
Abstract excerpt
Mocó cotton belong to the same species as the cultivated species, Gossypium hirsutum, and cultivated forms were mainly landraces but also developed as cultivars, bearing good fiber quality and drought tolerant when cropped as a perennial species. The northeast Brazil crop system based on this cotton type is finished, with a few small area planted in the three main States, where it was previously cultivated...
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