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Inheritance of Green and Brown Lint in Upland Cotton1

Inheritance of Green and Brown Lint in Upland Cotton1 Published November, 1943 INHERITANCE OF GREEN AND BROWN LINT IN UPLAND COTTON T. R. RICHMOND HE normal color of the lint of cultivated upland cotton, Gossy­ pium hirsutrtm L., is white or creamy white. Upland cottons with several shades of brown lint and one or possibly two shades of green lint have been reported. These manifestations of lint color could be the results of recent mutations from the normal white, but as the cotton of antiquity is usually described as having colored fibers, the various colo"rs in the lint may have been carried as mixtures in cultivated stocks for many years. This paper gives the results of genetic studies with three types of brown lint and a green lint cotton. LITERATURE According to Watt (n), ".All truly wild species have a red coloured woolly coating to the seed, which may or may not be referable to two layers, an inner, or fuzz, and an outer, or floss." He states also that, "the presence of a white fleece may .accordingly be regarded as a condition brought about by cultiva- tion.'' Ware (8, IO) and Brown (2) have shown that the F, generation of a cross of Nankeen brown lint X http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agronomy Journal Wiley

Inheritance of Green and Brown Lint in Upland Cotton1

Richmond, T. R.
Agronomy Journal , Volume 35 (11) – Nov 1, 1943
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0002-1962
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10.2134/agronj1943.00021962003500110006x
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Published November, 1943 INHERITANCE OF GREEN AND BROWN LINT IN UPLAND COTTON T. R. RICHMOND HE normal color of the lint of cultivated upland cotton, Gossy­ pium hirsutrtm L., is white or creamy white. Upland cottons with several shades of brown lint and one or possibly two shades of green lint have been reported. These manifestations of lint color could be the results of recent mutations from the normal white, but as the cotton of antiquity is usually described as having colored fibers, the various colo"rs in the lint may have been carried as mixtures in cultivated stocks for many years. This paper gives the results of genetic studies with three types of brown lint and a green lint cotton. LITERATURE According to Watt (n), ".All truly wild species have a red coloured woolly coating to the seed, which may or may not be referable to two layers, an inner, or fuzz, and an outer, or floss." He states also that, "the presence of a white fleece may .accordingly be regarded as a condition brought about by cultiva- tion.'' Ware (8, IO) and Brown (2) have shown that the F, generation of a cross of Nankeen brown lint X

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Published: Nov 1, 1943

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