Survey of Cotton Viruses in Oklahoma and Texas

Cotton is one of the important fiber and cash crops worldwide including the United States of America. Various viruses have been reported worldwide that infect cotton crops and significantly affected cotton yield. It is important to know about a particular virus that infects cotton before formulating control measures against a specific virus. The purpose of this project is to survey cotton fields for virus-like diseases and determine their relationships with the know virus diseases reported previously. 1 1