List of currently recognized Gossypium species, organized by germplasm pools
|
Species
|
Genome1
|
Notes
|
| Primary Germplasm Pool | ||
| hirsutum |
AD1
|
Current & obsolete cultivars, breeding stocks, primitive and wild accessions. |
| barbadense |
AD2
|
Current & obsolete cultivars, breeding stocks, primitive and wild accessions. |
| tomentosum |
AD3
|
Wild, Hawaiian Islands. |
| mustelinum |
AD4
|
Wild, NE Brazil |
| darwinii |
AD5
|
Wild, Galapagos Islands |
| Secondary Germplasm Pool | ||
| herbaceum |
A1
|
Cultivars and land races of Africa and Asia Minor, one wild from Southern African. |
| arboreum |
A2
|
Cultivars and land races of Asia Minor to SE Asia, & China, some African. |
| anomalum |
B1
|
Wild, two subspecies from Sahel and SW Africa |
| triphyllum |
B2
|
Wild, Cape Verde Islands |
| capitis-viridis |
B3
|
Wild, Cape Verde Islands |
| trifurcatum |
(B)
|
Wild, Somalia |
| longicalyx |
F1
|
Wild, trailing shrub, East Central Africa |
| thurberi |
D1
|
Wild, Sonora Desert |
| armourianum |
D2-1
|
Wild Baja California |
| harknessii |
D2-2
|
Wild Baja California |
| davidsonii |
D3-d
|
Wild Baja California |
| klotschianum |
D3--k
|
Wild, Galapagos Islands |
| aridum |
D4
|
Wild, arborescent, Pacific slopes of Mexico |
| raimondii |
D5
|
Wild, Pacific slopes of Peru |
| gossypioides |
D6
|
Wild, South central Mexico |
| labatum |
D7
|
Wild, arborescent, SW Mexico |
| trilobum |
D8
|
Wild, West central Mexico |
| laxum |
D9
|
Wild arborescent, SW Mexico |
| turneri |
D10
|
Wild, NW Mexiico |
| schwendimanii |
D11
|
Wild, arborescent, SW Mexico |
| Tertiary Germplasm Pool | ||
| sturtianum |
C1
|
Wild, Ornamental, Central Australia |
| robinsonii |
C2
|
Wild, Western Australia |
| bickii |
G1
|
Wild, Central Australia |
| australe |
(G)
|
Wild, North Transaustralia |
| nelsonii |
(G)
|
Wild, Central Australia |
| costulatum |
(K)
|
Wild, decumbent, North Kimberleys of W Australia |
| cunninghamii |
(K)
|
Wild, ascending, Northern tip of NT, Australia |
| enthyle |
(K)
|
Wild, erect, N Kimberleys, Australia |
| exgiuum |
(K)
|
Wild, prostrate, N Kimberleys, Australia |
| londonerriense |
(K)
|
Wild, ascending, N Kimberleys, Australia |
| marchantii |
(K)
|
Wild, decumbent, Australia |
| nobile |
(K)
|
Wild, erect, N Kimberleys, Australia |
| pilosum |
(K)
|
Wild, ascending N Kimberleys, Australia |
| populifolium |
(K)
|
Wild, ascending N Kimberleys, Australia |
| pulchellum |
(K)
|
Wild erect, N Kimberleys, Australia |
| rotundifolium |
(K)
|
Wild, prostrate, N Kimberleys, Australia |
| anapoides |
(K)
|
Wild erect, N Kimberleys, Australia |
| stocksii |
E1
|
Wild, Arabian Peninsula and Horn of Africa |
| somalense |
E2
|
Horn of Africa and Sudan |
| areysianum |
E3
|
Arabian Peninsula |
| incanum |
E4
|
Arabian Peninsula |
| bricchettii |
(E)
|
Somalia |
| benadirense |
(E)
|
Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya |
| vollensenii |
(E)
|
Somalia |
| 1 The genomic grouping of the Australian species is under study. Where used, ( ) indicate provisional genomic placement for the species in question. | ||
Information compiled, Page designed and developed by M. Sabesh, Scientist(SS), CICR, Coimbatore