Cotton's roots trace to Yucatan Peninsula, where wild gene pool runs deepest
June 16, 2026
June 16, 2026
AMES, Iowa, June 16 -- Iowa State University issued the following news release:
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Cotton's roots trace to Yucatan Peninsula, where wild gene pool runs deepest
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There's nothing like this in nature, Jonathan Wendel said as he showed a visitor in his Bessey Hall office the long white puffs billowing from a cotton boll - the protective flower capsule of the plant cultivated by humans for thousands of years. In the wild, cotton bolls . . .
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Cotton's roots trace to Yucatan Peninsula, where wild gene pool runs deepest
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There's nothing like this in nature, Jonathan Wendel said as he showed a visitor in his Bessey Hall office the long white puffs billowing from a cotton boll - the protective flower capsule of the plant cultivated by humans for thousands of years. In the wild, cotton bolls . . .