Cotton
Subtitle: Origin, History, Technology, and Production (Wiley Series in Crop Science)
Contributors: C. Wayne Smith (Editor); J. Tom Cothren (Editor)
Publisher: Wiley
Published: August 30, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 864
ISBN-13: 9780471180456
First sentence: The recounting of the origin and domestication of cotton is particularly fascinating because the word "cotton" simultaneously refers to four species in the genus Gossypium (Malvaceae) that were domesticated independently for the same purpose.