Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, University of Madras, Madras-5
Online published on 25 January, 2012.
The overall picture that emerged in this study is that the new world cottons are resistant to the Indian race of Fusarium oxysporum f. vasinfectum since this race is highly sensitive to gossypol and related compounds. The American and Russian races seem to have developed the ability to tolerate higher levels of these compounds and are hence virulent. This also indicates that with the continued extensive cultivation of new world cottons, new races of cotton wilt Fusarium that are more tolerant to gossypol may appear in Indian soils also, as they seem to have arisen in America and Russia where these cottons have been grown for much longer
