Scientists from Uzbekistan، USA create new types of cotton

Tashkent, The Gulf Observer: Scientists of Uzbekistan and the USA have created a new cotton variety resistant to wilt disease, the press service of the Ministry of Innovative Development reports.

In the last twenty years, there have been many cases of cotton wilt disease and plant wilting in the fields of California and Uzbekistan.

US and Uzbek scientists are conducting joint research in order to solve this problem and help cotton farmers. The work was conducted to find a solution aimed at increasing the resistance of cotton to the fungus.

“Scientists from Uzbekistan and researchers from the USA identified disease-resistant varieties and by crossing them succeeded in creating a wilt-resistant cotton type. I can happily say that our efforts have not gone in vain,” Mauricio Ulloa, geneticist-researcher of the US Department of Agriculture says.

Scientists of the Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics of the FA of Uzbekistan who participated in these studies published the results in Plant Registrations of the American Plant Science Society. Researchers created germplasm of new lines of cotton by crossing fungus-resistant varieties grown in Uzbekistan and the United States. Germplasm is also called a genetic resource and it helps breeders to expand varieties of agricultural crops.