Dataset describing plant materials used in the Colombian cotton production system
Description
This dataset describes Upland cotton cultivars used for fiber production in Colombia in the last century. Data describing genealogy, yield and fiber quality traits of these cultivars (and the introduced ones mainly from USA) is scattered across grey literature which reduces chances of discovering, accessing and assessing this information. The data was extracted from grey literature mainly produced by ICA and CORPOICA (rebranded today as AGROSAVIA), the Colombian agricultural research agencies. The dataset also includes a description of cotton breeding lines developed by these institutions for adaptation to tropical environments specially for the monsoon and savanna climates: the LC and LCER series of Upland cotton breeding lines. Bibliographic description of the grey literature used for building this dataset is also included and can be provided under request.