National Cotton Council of America
Beltwide Cotton Conferences
January 8-11, 2008
Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center
Nashville, Tennessee
The Cotton Foundation

Recorded Presentations

Friday, January 11, 2008 - 11:15 AM

The Wild Gossypium hirsutum of Paraguay

James McD. Stewart, University of Arkansas, Department of Crop, Soil,and Environmental Sciences, PTSC 115, Fayetteville, AR 72701 and Santiago Bertoni, Estación Experimental Chaco Central, Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia, Cruce de los Pioneros, Paraguay.

A population of wild Gossypium hirsutum was found in Paraguay in April of 2006.  Previously G. hirsutum was not known to occur naturally in the Southern hemisphere.  The habit will be described as well as comparisons with the wild cottons from the north coast of the Yucatan Penisula and from South Florida.

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