This is an example of boll distribution in a cotton plant population during the season. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

One issue is prolonged fiber exposure. Cotton bolls don’t all mature at the same time; the first open bolls in a field may wait for up to 50 days to be picked, until more bolls around them ripen.

As he entered the final rows on the edge of the field, the cotton plants were laying over from all the weight of the plant packed with bolls. “As we were running through the fields picking this ...

Dryland cotton farmers continued to take it on the chin in 2024 after a record hot summer and little beneficial rainfall.

Students (grades 5 - 8) "become" a boll of cotton. After researching U. S. geography and history from the earliest days of the American Industrial Revolution up to the Civil War, they relate ...

Cotton can thrive in heat and, indeed, needs those warm days to produce its fruit, the lint bolls usually spotted in fields during the late fall. But even though you and I can work well and hard ...