Overview
- Everything about the improvement of cotton through biotechnological methods in one volume
Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry (AGRICULTURE, volume 42)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Somaclonal Variation/ Genetic Variability; Plants Tolerant to Salt and Water Stress, High Temperature and Nematodes (for plants resistant to insects and herbicides see Chaps V.2,3, this Vol.)
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Genetic Transformation; Transgenic Cotton Resistant to Insects and Herbicides; Field Trials; Risk Assessment Studies; Genetic Engineering of Fiber
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Front Matter
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Secondary Metabolites — Gossypol and Tannins
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Twenty-three chapters on various aspects of in vitro manipulation and other biotechnological approaches to the improvement of cotton are arranged in six sections. Special emphasis is placed on interspecific hybridization, somaclonal variation, transgenic cotton resistant to insects and herbicides, and re-engineering of fiber.
This book is of special interest to advanced students, teachers, and research workers in the field of cotton breeding, genetics, tissue culture, molecular biology, and plant biotechnology in general.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cotton
Editors: Y. P. S. Bajaj
Series Title: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80373-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-80375-8Published: 19 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-80373-4Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0934-943X
Series E-ISSN: 2512-3696
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 367
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Plant Sciences