When it comes to growing cotton, success starts before a single seed is planted. Many growers focus on managing cotton after it has emerged, but successful management begins below the surface and ...

I was up in Natchitoches last year and picked up a tuft of cotton from one of the plants on the edge of a cotton field. I kept it on my desk for a while, and recently, I planted the seeds that were in ...

In hopes of discovering ways to reinvent how cotton grows, botanists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have sent the plant to space. On Earth, gravity is the primary factor in a plant’s root ...