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THE function of the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation is to assist in the promotion of cotton-growing in the various countries of the British Empire or Commonwealth. This aim is largely realized by close co-operation with the local governing authorities in the various territories, by carrying out a wide programme of research designed to maintain or improve the quality of the crops and to increase yield by selection and initial expansion of new seed stocks, by overcoming and circumventing pest and disease attack, and by effecting improvements in many aspects of tropical and sub-tropical crop husbandry. The Corporation started a main Cotton Research Station in Trinidad in 1926 and encouraged fundamental studies in botany, plant physiology and genetics so that cotton breeders would have firmer foundations for their work on the commercial cotton crops. The increasing complexity of many modern problems necessitates a considerable extension in this side of the work of the Corporation. The Trinidad Station has been closed and a new, larger station is being established in Uganda, where closer contact with the field-workers in Africa may be made.
The Evolution of Gossypium
And the Differentiation of the Cultivated Cottons. By J. B. Hutchinson, R. A. Silow and S. G. Stephens. Being the Final Report of the Genetics Department, Cotton Research Station, Trinidad, B.W.I. Pp. xi + 160. (London, New York and Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1947.) 15s. net.
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LORD, E. The Evolution of Gossypium. Nature 162, 716 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162716a0
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