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Status of the USA cotton germplasm collection and crop vulnerability

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The National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) is a cooperative effort among State, Federal and Private organizations aimed at preserving one of agriculture’s greatest assets: plant genetic diversity. The NPGS serves the scientific community by collecting, storing, and distributing germplasm as well as maintaining a searchable database of trait descriptors. Serving the NPGS, a Crop Germplasm Committee (CGC) is elected for each crop and is comprised of a group of scientists concerned with development, maintenance, characterization, and utilization of germplasm collections. Each CGC serves in an advisory role and provides a status report every seven years to determine scientific efforts, adequacy of germplasm base representation, and progress in breeding through utilization of germplasm. In addition, each committee can call attention to areas of concerns regarding facilities and staffing associated with the maintenance, collection, and taxonomic activities for a specific crop within the system. The following report was developed by the CGC for cotton and provides a record of collections, activities, concerns, crop vulnerabilities, and recommendations associated with the cotton collection for the period 1997–2005. Information provided within this document is a much expanded and detailed description of a report provided to the NPGS and includes the most exhaustive citation of germplasm depositions and research activity descriptions available anywhere in the USA for this time period. This documentation will be a valuable resource to breeders, geneticists, and taxonomists with an interest in this important food and fiber crop.

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Many if not most of the projects included in this report have been supported in part by Cotton Incorporated, USA.

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  1. Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, P.O. Box 9555, Mississippi State, MS, 39762, USA

    T. P. Wallace & O. A. Gutierrez

  2. Crop Science Department, North Carolina State University, 3709 Hillsborough Street, P.O. Box 8604, Raleigh, NC, 27695-8604, USA

    D. Bowman

  3. USDA-ARS, Coastal Plains Soil, Water, and Plant Research Center, 2611 W. Lucas Street, Florence, SC, 29501, USA

    B. T. Campbell

  4. Department of Crop and Soil Science, University of Georgia, P.O. Box 748, Tifton, GA, 31793, USA

    P. Chee

  5. USDA-ARS, Crop Germplasm Unit, 2881 F&B Road, College Station, TX, 77845, USA

    R. J. Kohel

  6. USDA-ARS, Crop Science Research Laboratory, 810 Highway 12 East, Mississippi State, MS, 39762, USA

    J. McCarty

  7. School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University, 104 M. B. Sturgis Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803-2110, USA

    G. Myers

  8. USDA-ARS Crop Germplasm Unit, 21881 F&B Road, College Station, TX, 77845, USA

    R. Percy

  9. USDA-ARS, Cotton Pathology Research Unit, 2765 F&B Road, College Station, TX, 77845, USA

    F. Robinson

  10. Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, 217D Heep Center, College Station, TX, 77843-2474, USA

    W. Smith & D. M. Stelly

  11. Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Arkansas, 115 Plant Science Building, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA

    J. M. Stewart

  12. Delta Research and Extension Center, Mississippi State University, P.O. Box 197, Stoneville, MS, 38776, USA

    P. Thaxton

  13. USDA-ARS, Western Integrated Cropping Systems Research Unit, 17053 N. Shafter Avenue, Shafter, CA, 93263, USA

    M. Ulloa

  14. Department of Agronomy and Soils, Auburn University, 202 Funchess Hall, Auburn, AL, 36849-5412, USA

    D. B. Weaver

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Wallace, T.P., Bowman, D., Campbell, B.T. et al. Status of the USA cotton germplasm collection and crop vulnerability. Genet Resour Crop Evol 56, 507–532 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-008-9382-2

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