Companies unveil innovative cotton cultivars with traits like nematode resistance, herbicide tolerance and improved fiber ...

I was up in Natchitoches last year and picked up a tuft of cotton from one of the plants on the edge of a cotton field. I kept it on my desk for a while, and recently, I planted the seeds that were in ...

Read about what Southwest cotton experts discussed at the recent Texas Plant Protection Association Conference and how ...

In hopes of discovering ways to reinvent how cotton grows, botanists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have sent the plant to space. On Earth, gravity is the primary factor in a plant’s root ...

I was a teenager in the 1970s and just beginning my love affair with rural Arkansas. During visits to my grandparents' home in Des Arc, I enjoyed going on long drives by myself through the Grand ...

Field after field of green cotton plants surrounding Lubbock, Texas, will soon turn into a blanket of white, as just beyond the city limits sits the largest cotton patch in the country. “We’re very ...

The life cycle of a cotton plant was captured from a tiny seed to blooming flowers before transforming into fluffy bolls over ...

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 ...