Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology (Jan 2012)

CULTIVAR RELEASE - BRS 336: A high-quality fiber upland cotton cultivar for Brazilian savanna and semi-arid conditions

  • Camilo de Lelis Morello,
  • Murilo Barros Pedrosa,
  • Nelson Dias Suassuna,
  • Fernando Mendes Lamas,
  • Luis Gonzaga Chitarra,
  • João Luis Silva Filho,
  • Francisco Pereira Andrade,
  • Paulo Augusto Vianna Barroso,
  • José Lopes Ribeiro,
  • Vicente de Paulo Campos Godinho,
  • Marcelo Abreu Lanza

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 92 – 95

Abstract

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Cotton cultivar BRS 336 is a high-quality fiber upland cultivar and has wide adaptation to the Brazilian growing areas, with resistance to bacterial blight. BRS 336 exhibited fiber length higher than 32.0 mm in all field tests. Also, fiber strength exceeded all upland cotton currently grown in Brazil.

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