గాసిపియమ్ (లాటిన్ Gossypium) పుష్పించే మొక్కలలో మాల్వేసి కుటుంబానికి చెందిన ప్రజాతి.
Commercial cotton fibres, used to manufacture cloth, are derived from the fruit of the cotton plant. The following species are grown commercially:
Many varieties of cotton have been developed by selective breeding and hybridisation of the above species. Experiments are ongoing to cross-breed various desirable traits of wild cotton species into the principal commercial species, such as resistance to insects and disease, and drought-tolerance.
Most wild cottons are diploid, but there is a group of five species from America and Pacific islands which are tetraploid, apparently due a single hybridisation 0.5 to 2 million years ago.[2] The tetraploid species are G. hirsutum, G. tomentosum, G. mustelinum, G. barbadense, and G. darwinii.
గాసిపియమ్ (లాటిన్ Gossypium) పుష్పించే మొక్కలలో మాల్వేసి కుటుంబానికి చెందిన ప్రజాతి.