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SCSC 311 Cotton ExamOrder:
Family:
Genus:
Species: - correct answer ✔✔Malave’s
Malvaceae
Gossypium L. (cotton)
-hirsutum (upland cotton)
-barbadense (pima or extra long staple (ELS))
arboreum
herbaceum
what is the earliest we see cotton? - correct answer ✔✔By Spanish in 1556
Was cotton common? - correct answer ✔✔Not particularly, it was more of a supplemental crop for wool
from europe. 1774 clerk in Liverpool certified 8 sacks of seedcotton as contraband because he had never
seen that much cotton from the americas (mostly West Indies)
Did the English embrace the cotton industry? - correct answer ✔✔No, because it was affecting the wool
industry, so they passed laws to protect the industry in 1700 and 1721. They were more interested in
tobacco, corn , lumber and silk (there was a requirement that every land holding of a given size in
Carolina have 1 mulberry tree per 10 acres for silkworms
Why would cotton be a necessity for the New World? - correct answer ✔✔Warmer weather than in
England. Wool may have worked in New England area, but in southern regions would have been way too
hot and not giving enough air.
What were the Old World cottons and how did they get over here? - correct answer ✔✔Gossypium
aboreum or G. herbaceum which would have been brought over my immagrants. G. aboreum was
selected from herbaceum coming from Levant (eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea)
, What was early movement of diploid cotton like? - correct answer ✔✔A. Cotton came from South Africa
(G. herbaceum race africanum) where it was transported by gold traders in Zimbabwe and Mozambique
up to Ethopia, Iran and Arabia
B. Here the cotton evolved naturally into G. herbaceum race acerfolium
Where is the oldest known use of cotton? - correct answer ✔✔Mohenjo-Daro in Pakistan from about
2300 BC
What is G. barbadense? - correct answer ✔✔pima; american-egyptian; egyptian; sea island, ELS (all G.
barbadense types are not ELS)
How did this cultivar come to be? - correct answer ✔✔Frank Levett; Sapelo Island, GA 1786 received a
bad of seed (assumed to be from Brazil) and by 1979 biotype of sea island type was established
What is G. hirusum? - correct answer ✔✔It is American upland or upland cotton
Where did the upland cotton come from? - correct answer ✔✔In 1806 Walter Burland on behalf of
France went to Mexico to ask the Spanish for their cotton which was successful. They responded that
they couldn't give him cotton due to the countries political disputes, but suggested that he take some
Mexican dolls home which were stuffed full of cotton seed.
During Pre- Columbian times what did the distribution of cotton look like in North and South America? -
correct answer ✔✔In North and Central America (and some of the West Indies) G. hirusum was more
popularly distributed. In South America and the West Indies they had more barbadense.
14. Aboreum vs Hirusum? - correct answer ✔✔H- is more tree like with sparse branching and white
cotton
A- More bushy with thicker vegetation with a yellowish flower
Spread of Cultivars - correct answer ✔✔1868:19 -> 1880:58 -> 1895:118 -> 1907: >600
The cause of this diversity is from the introduction of the boll weevil in Texas in 1892 and widespread of
it in 1898
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