一、棉花基础常识（国外英文资料）.doc

一、棉花基本知识（国外英文资料） The basic knowledge of cotton Cotton is a dicotylobifoliate, a genus of malacanophora. It is suitable for planting in loose and deep soil, such as heat, light, drought, and avoid. Cotton cultivation has a long history dating from 800 BC. Our country is one of the earlier planting cotton in the world, the third century BC, namely, the warring states period, in the history, were has recorded about cotton and cotton in our country. Cotton cultivation history in our country, has planted four cultivars: sea island cotton (long-staple cotton), Asia cotton (cotton), upland cotton (cotton) and lidan (coarse cotton). In different historical periods, the main cultivars of our country are different, the Asian cotton has been introduced the longest, the planting time is the longest, and the cultivation area is wider. The introduction of land cotton into our country was short, but it was very fast, replacing Asian cotton in the 1850s. Cotton, which is now grown in cotton, is mostly land cotton (fine cotton), and xinjiang also has a small number of island cotton (long staple cotton). (1) the characteristics of cotton varieties Cotton originated in tropical and subtropical areas, and is a perennial, short-sunshine crop. The long-term artificial selection and cultivation gradually moved north to the temperate zone and evolved into annual crops. Spring (or early summer) seeding, the present bud, flower, strong, complete the birth cycle, to the winter chill come, the life terminates. In the process of its growth and development, as long as there is enough, the effects of temperature, illumination, just as a perennial plant, can keep long branch, leaf, budding, flowering and boll setting, continue to grow and develop, has unlimited growing and strong ability of regeneration. In the lifetime of cotton, temperature has an impact on its growth, production and product quality. In addition to temperature, cotton is very sensitive to light, and is resistant to drought and