The Goodyear tire people started huge cotton farms in the area to provide the cotton they needed for airplane tires. At one time, there were about 400,000 acres of cotton in Arizona. Now it's ...

Cotton is grown in 13 states across the southern U.S. The western half of this belt has been in drought since 2000. USDA. Plants have very large genomes with lots of repetitive sequences, which ...

In straightforward terms, cotton uses water transiently in a cycle; It doesn’t exhaust it. Cotton (and other plants) absorb water through their roots and transmit it back to the atmosphere ...

Reniform nematodes, pictured, look like small leaves growing out of a cotton root. (Supplied: Department of Primary Industries)Growers facing the pest are urged to plant something different ...

Cotton is the oldest known and most used textile around the world. While it took around 3,000 years to understand how to cultivate and process the first wild cotton, now with nuclear techniques, new ...