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Article: Foreign genes for domestic cotton. (collection of Asian cotton germplasm)
- Article from:
- Agricultural Research
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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Russian, Uzbek, and Indian additions to the U.S. cotton germplasm collection could prove to be a treasure chest of genes against cold weather, insects, and disease.
Just a little squint. Ed Percival says now, just a little imagination, and he'd have thought he was back in western Texas: flat terrain, a few meager trees to break the horizon, and cotton seedlings scrabbling for survival in the arid soil.
But this wasn't Texas.
Percival was in the countryside edging Samarkand, fabled capital of the 14th-century empire of Tamerlane and now a metropolitan jewel of the modem Republic of Uzbekistan.
While Samarkand is legendary for its opulent silks ...