World Cotton Day, 7 October 2025
World Cotton Day, celebrated annually on 7 October, underscores the significance of cotton as more than just a fabric—it is a global engine of livelihoods, trade, and development. Cotton provides income and employment to millions of smallholders, workers, and families in some of the poorest rural regions across 80 countries and five continents. For the lowest-income and lower-income countries, it is not merely a commodity but a safety net, empowering communities and fostering economic resilience.
In recognition of World Cotton Day, MDPI highlights the critical role of cotton in advancing sustainable development, trade, and poverty alleviation. By ensuring open access to research on sustainable agriculture, textile innovation, economic development, and inclusive growth, MDPI supports global dialogue and knowledge exchange that contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Together, we recognize cotton’s enduring value and its capacity to weave a more sustainable and equitable future.
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“Duplicated Genes on Homologous Chromosomes Decipher the Dominant Epistasis of the Fiberless Mutant in Cotton”
by Yu Le, Xingchen Xiong, Zhiyong Xu, Meilin Chen, Yuanxue Li, Chao Fu, Chunyuan You and Zhongxu Lin
Biology 2025, 14(8), 983; https://doi.org/10.3390/biology14080983
“Hyperspectral Reflectance-Based High Throughput Phenotyping to Assess Water-Use Efficiency in Cotton”
by Sahila Beegum, Muhammad Adeel Hassan, Purushothaman Ramamoorthy, Raju Bheemanahalli, Krishna N. Reddy, Vangimalla Reddy and Kambham Raja Reddy
Agriculture 2024, 14(7), 1054; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14071054
“Fingerprint Finder: Identifying Genomic Fingerprint Sites in Cotton Cohorts for Genetic Analysis and Breeding Advancement”
by Shang Liu, Hailiang Cheng, Youping Zhang, Man He, Dongyun Zuo, Qiaolian Wang, Limin Lv, Zhongxv Lin and Guoli Song
Genes 2024, 15(3), 378; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes15030378
“Mycorrhizas Affect Physiological Performance, Antioxidant System, Photosynthesis, Endogenous Hormones, and Water Content in Cotton under Salt Stress”
by De-Jian Zhang, Cui-Ling Tong, Qiong-Shan Wang and Shu Bie
Plants 2024, 13(6), 805; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13060805
“Functional Characterization of RNA Silencing Suppressor Encoded by Cotton Leafroll Dwarf Virus”
by Mary F. Akinyuwa and Sung-Hwan Kang
Agriculture 2024, 14(2), 194; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14020194
“Domestication over Speciation in Allopolyploid Cotton Species: A Stronger Transcriptomic Pull”
by Josef J. Jareczek, Corrinne E. Grover, Guanjing Hu, Xianpeng Xiong, Mark A. Arick II, Daniel G. Peterson and Jonathan F. Wendel
Genes 2023, 14(6), 1301; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes14061301
“Production and Fiber Characteristics of Colored Cotton Cultivares under Salt Stress and H2O2”
by Luana Lucas de Sá Almeida Veloso, Carlos Alberto Vieira de Azevedo, Reginaldo Gomes Nobre, Geovani Soares de Lima, José Renato Cortez Bezerra, André Alisson Rodrigues da Silva, Reynaldo Teodoro de Fátima, Hans Raj Gheyi, Lauriane Almeida dos Anjos Soares, Pedro Dantas Fernandes et al.
Plants 2023, 12(11), 2090; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12112090
“A New Method to Calculate Cotton Fiber Length Uniformity Using the HVI Fibrogram”
by Md Abu Sayeed, Christopher Turner, Brendan R. Kelly, John Wanjura, Wayne Smith, Mitchell Schumann and Eric F. Hequet
Agronomy 2023, 13(5), 1326; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13051326
“Different Trap Types Depict Dissimilar Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Cotton Fields”
by Elina Karakantza, Christos I. Rumbos, Chris Cavalaris and Christos G. Athanassiou
Agronomy 2023, 13(5), 1256; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13051256
“A Novel Tandem Zinc Finger Protein in Gossypium hirsutum, GhTZF2, Interacts with GhMORF8 to Regulate Cotton Fiber Cell Development”
by Yang Li, Wei Xi, Jianfeng Hao, Li Zhang, Xingpeng Wen, Zhiguo Wu and Yuxian Zhu
Agronomy 2023, 13(2), 519; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13020519
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“Genetic Diversity and Molecular Marker Development for Cotton Breeding and Crop Improvement” |
“Innovations in Green and Efficient Cotton Cultivation” |
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