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Interbreeding of white cotton lines produces a new cultivar whose fabric is naturally flame-resistant

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Flame resistant cotton lines generated by synergistic epistasis in a MAGIC population

image: Time series of 45° incline flame test of non-woven fabrics from the MAGIC recombinant inbred lines (RILs) with the inferior heat release capacities (HRC) and the most superior HRC. Each image is 5 seconds apart. Top series is fabric made from RIL-225, which like all untreated textiles produced from conventional cultivated white cottons, was fully consumed by flame in approximately 15 seconds. Bottom series is RIL-385, which self-extinguished. view more 

Credit: Thyssen et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278696

Article Title: Flame resistant cotton lines generated by synergistic epistasis in a MAGIC population

Author Countries: USA

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.


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