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"name": "Gossypium", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Gossypium as the cotton plant genus, assess evidence about its members and living material, and determine appropriate identification, cultivation or conservation actions.", "definition": "Gossypium is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae, comprising the cotton plants, whose seeds bear hairs that provide commercial cotton fibre in cultivated species.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the biological identity and genus-specific assessment of Gossypium under registry entry vr.tr.gossypium, including relationships to member taxa, populations and specimens; it distinguishes the genus from harvested cotton fibre and cotton-derived products.", "in_scope": [ "Genus membership, taxonomic interpretation and identification evidence", "Diagnostic plant structures, reproductive development and seed hairs", "Species, cultivar and accession relationships within Gossypium", "Wild and cultivated occurrence, 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"Controls whether species-specific advice or biological comparisons are justified." }, { "name": "Diagnostic reproductive morphology", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Keyed observations of bracts, flowers, capsule compartments and seeds", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification through a combination of characters rather than a familiar common name." }, { "name": "Seed-hair expression", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed hair coverage and lint/fuzz description, with maturity and preparation state", "why_it_matters": "Records cotton-relevant variation without assuming that all members produce commercially useful fibre." }, { "name": "Growth form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed habit and persistence, distinguishing natural growth from cultivation practice", "why_it_matters": "Avoids equating management as an annual crop with inherent life history." }, { "name": "Reproductive stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Vegetative | budding | 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as organic or from a given origin without evidence.", "Advise pesticide use outside label rules or without protection for workers.", "Plant genetically modified varieties where they are not authorized." ], "requires_human": [ "Sourcing decisions about regions with credible reports of forced labour." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Cotton farming has been linked to forced labour and heavy pesticide and water use.", "Millions of smallholders depend on cotton prices for their living." ], "affected_parties": [ "Farm workers", "Smallholder farmers", "Communities near cotton fields" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The grower on whose land it is cultivated; seed developers hold rights in registered varieties.", "master_systems": [ "Plant variety registers", "Plant name databases" ] }, "visual_identification": [ "Shrubby plants with broad lobed leaves and large cream, yellow or pink flowers.", "Bolls that split open to show white fluffy fibre." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Pesticide exposure harms farm workers.", "Cotton dust can cause lung disease in mill workers, and cotton bales can catch fire." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, International Association for Plant Taxonomy." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Gossypium plants occur in wild populations, agricultural fields, breeding collections and botanical collections.", "Cultivated cotton species supply seed hairs for textile fibre and seeds for oil and other processed products.", "Researchers and conservation workers study the genus to understand crop diversity, adaptation and wild relatives." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q719312: Gossypium", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q719312", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Gossypium", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossypium", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "taxonomic-identity", "name": "Taxonomic identity", "description": "Establish what Gossypium denotes and how assessed material belongs to it.", "rationale": "The registry names a genus, while most observations and interventions concern a species, plant or accession.", "layers": [ { "id": "genus-concept", "name": "Genus concept", "description": "Anchor the registered name to an explicit botanical treatment.", "findings": [ { "id": "accepted-genus-boundary", "name": "Accepted genus boundary", "description": "Record the authority used to recognise Gossypium and interpret names encountered in identification records.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which botanical treatment defines the accepted Gossypium concept used here?", "kind": "definition", "id": "accepted-genus-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Does an encountered cotton name denote this genus, a member taxon or a harvested material?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "accepted-genus-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "member-assignment", "name": "Member assignment", "description": "Connect assessed material to member taxa without collapsing taxon and specimen identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-material-identity", "name": "Supported material identity", "description": "Retain the evidence and uncertainty behind species, cultivar and accession labels.", "questions": [ { "text": "What voucher, determination or accession documentation supports this material's assignment within Gossypium?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-material-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which labels identify a taxon, a cultivar and a particular accession, and where is their relationship unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-material-identity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "diagnostic-plant-structures", "name": "Diagnostic plant structures", "description": "Organise observations that distinguish Gossypium and help resolve its members.", "rationale": "Common names and cotton-like fibres are insufficient substitutes for botanical identification.", "layers": [ { "id": "vegetative-and-floral-evidence", "name": "Vegetative and floral evidence", "description": "Assess the combinations of characters available on a living or preserved plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "key-based-identification", "name": "Key-based identification", "description": "Use a suitable botanical key to interpret leaf, bract and floral observations together.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaf, bract and floral characters does the applicable key require to distinguish Gossypium from local lookalikes?", "kind": "definition", "id": "key-based-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Which required characters are observable, and which are missing because the material is juvenile, damaged or incomplete?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "key-based-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "boll-and-seed-evidence", "name": "Boll and seed 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seeds support different observations and actions; shared genus membership does not establish crossing outcomes.", "layers": [ { "id": "phenology-and-boll-development", "name": "Phenology and boll development", "description": "Relate observed reproductive stages to the identified material and growing conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-stage-assessment", "name": "Reproductive stage assessment", "description": "Assess flowering, boll formation and seed maturity without imposing a single crop calendar on the genus.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which flowering and boll-development stages occur on the assessed plant, and when were they observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-stage-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What taxon-specific evidence determines whether the observed bolls contain seed suitable for collection?", "kind": "action", "id": "reproductive-stage-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-compatibility", "name": "Reproductive compatibility", "description": "Keep mating behaviour and genomic evidence explicit when considering seed production or crossing.", "findings": [ { "id": "crossing-evidence", "name": "Crossing evidence", "description": "Require documented parent identity and reproductive evidence before predicting compatibility or progeny identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes the proposed parents' taxonomic identities, ploidy and any genome assignments?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "crossing-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What crossing and fertility evidence supports the proposed pairing, and what isolation is needed to interpret resulting seed?", "kind": "action", "id": "crossing-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "habitat-and-growing-condition", "name": "Habitat and growing condition", "description": "Interpret where Gossypium material occurs and how its condition relates to its environment.", "rationale": "Requirements inferred from commercial cotton cannot automatically describe wild members or every accession.", "layers": [ { "id": "occurrence-and-environment", "name": "Occurrence and environment", "description": "Distinguish ecological provenance from the conditions of present cultivation.", "findings": [ { "id": "taxon-specific-environmental-fit", "name": "Taxon-specific environmental fit", "description": "Compare observed conditions with supported requirements for the identified material.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this occurrence wild, cultivated or introduced, and what record supports that classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "taxon-specific-environmental-fit-q01" }, { "text": "What temperature, water availability and soil observations are needed to assess this taxon's environmental fit?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "taxon-specific-environmental-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "plant-and-boll-condition", "name": "Plant and boll condition", "description": "Record symptoms and reproductive losses before assigning causes.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-based-triage", "name": "Condition-based triage", "description": "Relate leaf, flower and boll symptoms to developmental stage while preserving diagnostic uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organs show injury, abnormal development or shedding, and how extensive are the observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-based-triage-q01" }, { "text": "What further evidence is needed to distinguish normal development, environmental stress and a pest or pathogen problem before intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-based-triage-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "germplasm-and-stewardship", "name": "Germplasm and stewardship", "description": "Support responsible collection, storage, propagation and movement of identified Gossypium material.", "rationale": "Seed viability, accession identity and provenance determine whether material remains useful and whether proposed actions are appropriate.", "layers": [ { "id": "accession-integrity", "name": "Accession 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the actual taxon, source population, material type and destination.", "questions": [ { "text": "What collection authority, conservation assessment and access conditions apply to the source population or accession?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "permitted-material-actions-q01" }, { "text": "What current plant-health and, where applicable, modified-organism requirements govern the proposed movement or planting?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-material-actions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The intended sense is inferred to be the botanical genus, rather than cotton fibre or a particular cultivated species.", "Species counts and taxonomic boundaries should be checked against a current botanical treatment.", "Agronomic performance, fibre measurements and feed-safety limits depend on species, cultivar, processing and growing conditions; no genus-wide numerical ranges are asserted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Gossypium this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Gossypium hirsutum - upland cotton", "Gossypium barbadense - a cultivated source of extra-long-staple cotton", "Gossypium arboreum - tree cotton", "Gossypium herbaceum - Levant cotton", "Wild Gossypium species" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Gossypium this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Botanical nomenclature", "value_or_pattern": "Gossypium L.", "note": "The genus name with its botanical author abbreviation; L. denotes Linnaeus." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Gossypium this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, adopted through International Botanical Congresses, governs botanical naming." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Gossypium this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Cultivation of selected species for seed hairs used as textile fibre.", "Production of cottonseed oil after appropriate processing.", "Production of cottonseed meal for animal feed, subject to gossypol constraints.", "Use of short seed hairs, called linters, as a cellulose feedstock.", "Use of wild and cultivated species as genetic resources for cotton breeding." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Gossypium this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Cotton crops can suffer damage from boll weevils, bollworms and other insect pests.", "Fusarium wilt and Verticillium wilt can damage susceptible cotton plants.", "Drought, waterlogging and temperature extremes can impair crop establishment, yield or fibre quality.", "Gossypol in cottonseed and other plant tissues limits the safe use of unprocessed material as food or feed." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Gossypium this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Wild species occur across tropical and subtropical regions, including the Americas, Africa and Australia.", "Gossypium hirsutum is widely cultivated internationally; Gossypium barbadense is associated with specialty long-staple and extra-long-staple production.", "Gossypium arboreum and Gossypium herbaceum have longstanding cultivation histories in parts of Asia and Africa." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Gossypium this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Cotton fibre", "difference": "Cotton fibre is material obtained from seed hairs; Gossypium is the plant genus that produces it." }, { "name": "Gossypium hirsutum", "difference": "Gossypium hirsutum is one species within the genus, rather than the genus as a whole." }, { "name": "Malvaceae", "difference": "Malvaceae is the family containing Gossypium and many other genera." }, { "name": "Gossypol", "difference": "Gossypol is a chemical constituent of cotton plants, not a plant taxon." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Gossypium this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which current botanical authority and treatment should define Gossypium membership and resolve competing member names?", "Which diagnostic character combinations reliably separate Gossypium from its closest relevant lookalikes, especially when flowers or mature bolls are absent?", "How should member-specific variation in seed hairs, growth form and phenology be represented without generalising from cultivated cotton?", "Which ploidy, genome-assignment and crossing claims have sufficient evidence for use in accession-level decisions?", "Does the existing Vercy catalogue already provide an authoritative cotton-plant or Gossypium model that this registry entry should reference?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }