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Cotton Breeding and Biotechnology

Challenges and Opportunities

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Cotton Breeding and Biotechnology presents information on one of the most economically important crops of the world, cotton. This book contains chapters on the history of cotton; breeding approaches; technologies for increasing germination, crop growth and yield; and fiber quality issues. It emphasizes sustainable development in the cotton industry analysing the progress of breeding technologies under environmental adversity. The book explores the national and global status of cotton crop, including cotton production, possible impacts of climate change, and the vulnerability of cotton to pest infestations and disease attacks.

FeaturesFocuses on cotton breeding and biotechnologyProposes ideas, data, and strategies to mount breeding programs for enhancing cotton productionDetails strategies for cotton quality improvement against abiotic and biotic stressesEmphasizes the revival of cotton in Pakistan and South Asian region

This book is useful to researchers, cotton breeders and growers, farmers, and the agriculture industry.

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ISBN13:9780367562229
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:354
Uitgever:Taylor & Francis Ltd

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Contents

Foreword...........................................................................................................................................vii

Editors................................................................................................................................................ix

List of Contributors............................................................................................................................xi

Chapter 1 Role of Breeding and Biotechnology in Sustainable Cotton Production......................1

Zulqurnain Khan, Zulfiqar Ali and Asif Ali Khan

Chapter 2 Cotton Genetics and Genomics...................................................................................15

Muhammad Umar Iqbal, Sultan Habibullah Khan, Muhammad Salman Mubarik,

Aftab Ahmad, Muhammad Sajjad and Hafiz Muhammad Imran

Chapter 3 Conventional Breeding of Cotton................................................................................29

Farzana Ashraf, Nadia Iqbal, Wajid Nazeer, Zia Ullah Zia, Asif Ali Khan

and Saghir Ahmad

Chapter 4 Molecular Cotton Breeding.........................................................................................47

Zulqurnain Khan, Zulfiqar Ali and Asif Ali Khan

Chapter 5 Gene Mapping in Cotton.............................................................................................69

Muhammad Abu Bakar Saddique, Zulfiqar Ali, Muhammad Ali Sher,

Babar Farid, Furqan Ahmad and Sarmad Frogh Arshad

Chapter 6 Functional Genomics in Cotton...................................................................................87

Furqan Ahmad, Akash Fatima, Plosha Khanum, Shoaib ur Rehman,

Muhammad Abu Bakar Saddique, Mahmood Alam Khan and Zulqurnain Khan

Chapter 7 Cotton Transformation and Regeneration.................................................................101

Ummara Waheed, Sadia Shabir, Fatima Mazhar, Mamoona Rehman,

Hamza Ahmad Qureshi and Nadia Iqbal

Chapter 8 Breeding Cotton for Heat Tolerance..........................................................................113

Muhammad Kashif Riaz Khan, Fang Liu, Baohua Wang, Manzoor Hussain,

Allah Ditta, Zunaira Anwar and Aqsa Ijaz

Chapter 9 Breeding Cotton for Drought Tolerance....................................................................139

Muhammad Mahmood Ahmed, Muhammad Waseem Akram and Zulfiqar Ali

Chapter 10 Breeding Cotton for Salt Tolerance...........................................................................157

Zulfiqar Ali, Muhammad Tehseen Azhar, Muhammad Mahmood Ahmed,

Umar Akram and Abid Hussain

Chapter 11 Breeding Cotton for Cotton Leaf Curl Disease Resistance.......................................171

Judith K. Brown and Zulqurnain Khan

Chapter 12 Breeding Cotton for Insects/Pests Resistance...........................................................199

Hafiza Masooma Naseer Cheema, Asif Ali Khan, Muhammad Aakif Khan,

Muhammad Ans Pervez, Muhammad Zubair Ghouri, Aftab Ahmad

and Sultan Habibullah Khan

Chapter 13 Breeding Cotton for Herbicide Resistance................................................................233

Muhammad Zaffar Iqbal and Shahid Nazir

Chapter 14 Breeding Cotton for Fiber Traits...............................................................................245

Nadia Iqbal, Farzana Ashraf, Ummara Waheed and Saghir Ahmad

Chapter 15 Breeding Cotton for Value Added Traits...................................................................259

Sajid Majeed, Muhammad Salman Mubarik, Muhammad Umar Iqbal,

Xiongming Du and Muhammad Tehseen Azhar

Chapter 16 Genetically Modified Cotton: Boom or Dust............................................................271

Iqrar Ahmad Rana, Allah Bakhsh, Shakhnozakhon Tillaboeva, Qandeel-e-Arsh,

Shang Haihong and Muhammad Tehseen Azhar

Chapter 17 Cotton Seed System..................................................................................................291

Fawad Salman Shah, Muhammad Aslam Bhatti, Asif Ali Khan,

Irfan Ahmad Baig, Muhammad Hammad Nadeem Tahir, Furqan Ahmad

and Muhammad Amir Bakhtavar

Chapter 18 Cotton Breeding and Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Opportunities...................311

Mubashir Mehdi, Muhammad Haseeb Raza and Muhammad Talha Azeem

Chapter 19 Breeding Cotton for International Trade...................................................................323

Khalid Abdullah and Zahid Khan

Index .......................................................................................................................................339

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