cotton

Fabricating Aerogels From Fabric Waste

Scientists in Singapore have developed an aerogel from cotton-based waste that can be used to stop excessive bleeding.

Improving Cotton Without Modifying Its Genes

The methylome of the cotton genome suggests that the economically important crop could be improved with epigenetic modifications that do not affect the underlying genome sequence.

How Cotton Fiber Growth Is Regulated

Silencing of the gene GhHOX3 dramatically reduces cotton fiber length, whereas its overexpression leads to longer fibers.