It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

US Department of Agriculture

Cotton Farming / Innovation

20 January 2023

Although all of the parental cotton lines produced flammable fabric, researchers found that flame retardance did not come from a single gene. Instead, they found that multiple genes created a phenotype for fibres with significantly lower heat release capacities.

USDA Researchers Develop Naturally Fire-Resistant Cotton Lines

New cotton lines created by a multi-parent breeding approach has resulted in opportunities for natural genes to interact and develop the unexpected trait of flame retardancy. This means that when exposed to an open flame, the fabric from the new cotton lines self-extinguish whereas regular cotton fabric burns entirely in seconds.

Staff Writer

Climate Action / US Cotton

16 September 2022

3 minutes

The US Climate-Smart Cotton Program will build markets for climate-smart cotton and provide technical and financial assistance to over 1,000 US cotton farmers, including underserved cotton producers, to advance adoption of climate-smart practices on more than 1 million acres, producing millions of bales of Climate-Smart Cotton over five years.

USDA Wants Cotton to Be Climate-Smart, US Cotton Trust Protocol Gets $90 million

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has selected the US Cotton Trust Protocol to lead the US Climate Smart Cotton Program with a funding ceiling of $90 million. This will be one of the 70 projects selected under the first pool of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity.