Editing Cotton (section)

==Types==
There are four commercially grown species of cotton, all domesticated in antiquity:
*''[[Gossypium hirsutum]]''&nbsp;– upland cotton, native to [[Central America]], Mexico, the Caribbean and southern Florida (90% of world production)<ref name="natfibr2009" />
*''[[Gossypium barbadense]]''&nbsp;– known as extra-long staple cotton, native to tropical South America (over 5% of world production)<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Liu |first1=Xia |last2=Zhao |first2=Bo |last3=Zheng |first3=Hua-Jun |last4=Hu |first4=Yan |last5=Lu |first5=Gang |last6=Yang |first6=Chang-Qing |last7=Chen |first7=Jie-Dan |last8=Chen |first8=Jun-Jian |last9=Chen |first9=Dian-Yang |last10=Zhang |first10=Liang |last11=Zhou |first11=Yan |last12=Wang |first12=Ling-Jian |last13=Guo |first13=Wang-Zhen |last14=Bai |first14=Yu-Lin |last15=Ruan |first15=Ju-Xin |date=2015-09-30 |title=Gossypium barbadense genome sequence provides insight into the evolution of extra-long staple fiber and specialized metabolites |journal=Scientific Reports |language=en |volume=5 |issue=1 |page=14139 |doi=10.1038/srep14139 |issn=2045-2322 |pmc=4588572 |pmid=26420475|bibcode=2015NatSR...514139L }}</ref>
*''[[Gossypium arboreum]]''&nbsp;– tree cotton, native to India and Pakistan (less than 2%)
*''[[Gossypium herbaceum]]''&nbsp;– Levant cotton, native to southern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (less than 2%)

Hybrid varieties are also cultivated.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Singh|first=Phundan|title=Cotton Varieties and Hybrids|url=http://www.cicr.org.in/pdf/cotton_varieties_hybrids.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.cicr.org.in/pdf/cotton_varieties_hybrids.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref> The two New World cotton species account for the vast majority of modern cotton production, but the two Old World species were widely used before the 1900s. While cotton fibers occur naturally in colors of white, brown, pink and green, fears of contaminating the genetics of white cotton have led many cotton-growing locations to ban the growing of colored cotton varieties.