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Cotton

Fibre and Other Industrial Crops

The world's leading natural fiber crop, domesticated independently at least four times, in the Indus Valley, Africa, Mesoamerica and the Andes. Cotton clothed the ancient world, drove the industrial revolution's mills, and, with the cotton gin, entrenched plantation slavery in the American South. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Scientific Name
Gossypium hirsutum (upland cotton, the dominant commercial species) 1
Crop Class
Fiber 1
Domestication Region
Domesticated independently in the Old and New Worlds (Indus Valley, Africa, Mesoamerica, coastal Peru) 1
Domesticated When (Circa)
by circa 5000 BC in both hemispheres 1
Classification
Life Cycle
Annual 1
Life Cycle
Perennial 1
Primary Use
Fiber 1
Era
Era (category)
Neolithic 1
Era (category)
Chalcolithic (Copper Age) 1
Cotton
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Affected By

Source Boll Weevil (Wikipedia)
Source Cotton Bollworm (Wikipedia)
Source Dysmicoccus brevipes (Wikipedia)
Source Fall Armyworm (Wikipedia)
Source Pink Bollworm (Wikipedia)
Source Reniform Nematode (Wikipedia)
Source Silverleaf Whitefly (Wikipedia)
Source Stigmatomycosis (Wikipedia)
Source Thielaviopsis basicola (Wikipedia)
Source Verticillium Wilt (Wikipedia)

Associated With

Boll Weevil, Pests and Diseases

The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) is historically the most destructive insect pest of cultivated cotton in North America.

Cash Crop, Concepts

Cotton was among the defining cash crops of the colonial and antebellum plantation economy.

Source Cash Crop (Wikipedia)
Cotton Bollworm, Pests and Diseases

The cotton bollworm is one of the most economically damaging insect pests of cultivated cotton globally.

Source Cotton Gin (Wikipedia)

the cotton picker mechanically harvests seed cotton from the plant

Pink Bollworm, Pests and Diseases

The pink bollworm is a major quarantine insect pest that bores into cotton bolls, damaging lint and seed.

The reniform nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis) is a major yield-limiting root pathogen of cotton in the southern United States.

The silverleaf whitefly is a major direct-feeding and virus-transmitting pest of cotton in the US Cotton Belt.

The twospotted spider mite is a major, broadly polyphagous pest of cotton, among many other crops.

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Era Of Origin

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Found In

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Source Cotton (Wikipedia)

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Source Cotton (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Cotton (Wikipedia)
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  • lead description or Wikipedia lead (primary-uses)
    The world's leading natural fiber crop, domesticated independently at least four times, in the Indus Valley, Africa, Mesoamerica and the Andes.
  • History section
    The domestication of Gossypium hirsutum, in Mexico, is dated to between around 3400 and 2300 BC. Cultivation of G. barbadense from a find in Ancon, Peru has been dated to c. 4200 BC. Cotton is naturally a perennial but is grown as an annual.
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Cash Crop (Wikipedia)
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Fall Armyworm (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Fall Armyworm, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Fall Armyworm, Article text
Some examples of targeted crops include cotton, tobacco, sweet corn, rice, peanuts, and even fruits such as apples, oranges, and many more.
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Cotton Bollworm (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Cotton Bollworm, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Cotton Bollworm, Article text
Cotton bollworms are a significant pest of cotton. "A major pest in hot countries of irrigated crops.
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Boll Weevil (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Boll Weevil, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Boll Weevil, Article text
The boll weevil feeds on cotton buds and flowers.
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Silverleaf Whitefly (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Silverleaf Whitefly, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Silverleaf Whitefly, Article text
Common hosts are agricultural crops including tomatoes, squash, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, melons, cotton, carrots, sweet potato, cucumber, and pumpkin, and ornamental plants such as poinsettia, crepe myrtle, garden roses, lantana, and lilies.
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Pink Bollworm (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Pink Bollworm, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Pink Bollworm, Article text
The female moth lays eggs in a cotton boll, and when the larvae emerge from the eggs, they inflict damage through feeding.
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Verticillium Wilt (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Verticillium Wilt, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Verticillium Wilt, Article text
Many economically important plants are susceptible including cotton, tomatoes, potatoes, oilseed rape, eggplants, peppers and ornamentals, as well as others in natural vegetation communities.
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Reniform Nematode (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Reniform Nematode, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Reniform Nematode, Article text
It has a wide host range that includes fruit trees, lentil, cotton, pigeon pea, tea, tobacco, soybean, pineapple, banana, okra, coconut, cabbage, sweet potato, alfalfa, corn, asparagus, palm, cucumber, tomato, squash, cassava, radish, eggplant, guava, melon, chickpea, and ginger.
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Thielaviopsis basicola (Wikipedia)
Affected By: Thielaviopsis basicola, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Thielaviopsis basicola, Article text
Examples of susceptible hosts include petunia, pansy, poinsettia, tobacco, cotton, carrot, lettuce, tomato, and others.
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Dysmicoccus brevipes (Wikipedia)
Affected By: Dysmicoccus brevipes, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Dysmicoccus brevipes, Article text
The species is found primarily on pineapple and other species in the genus Ananas, but also infests citrus trees, cotton, banana, coffee and other plants.
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Stigmatomycosis (Wikipedia)
Affected By: Stigmatomycosis, Lead section
Quote, Affected By: Stigmatomycosis, Lead section
a fungal disease that occurs in a number of crops, such as cotton, soybean, pecan, pomegranate, citrus, and pistachio
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