Maps in cotton
A number of molecular genetic maps have been prepared in cotton, most of them for tetraploid upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) with AADD genomic constitution, but some of them also for diploid cotton (G. herbaceum) with AA genomic constitution. The mapping populations used for mapping the genome of tetraploid cotton, generally consisted of F2 or F23 (bulk-sampled plots) or DR lines derived from interspecific cross G. hirsutumx G. barbadense. Some of these maps included the following: (i) In 1998, a detailed restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) map, was prepared for tetraploid cotton, in which 705 RFLP loci, assembled into 41 linkage groups, covered a genetic distance of 4675 cM.


