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Cotton

Biotechnological Advances

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Editors:
  1. Usha B. Zehr

    1. Mahyco Research Center, Dawalwadi, India

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  • Highlights the advances in cotton biotechnology, the benefits and socioeconomic impacts
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry (AGRICULTURE, volume 65)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Cotton: An Introduction

    • B. M. Khadi, V. Santhy, M. S. Yadav
    Pages 1-14

  3. Cotton in India

    • B. M. Khadi, V. Santhy, M. S. Yadav
    Pages 15-44

  4. Cotton Genomics

    • A. H. Paterson
    Pages 45-63

  5. Cotton Transformation

    • D. R. Duncan
    Pages 65-77

  6. New Tools and Traits for Cotton Improvement

    • J. P. Purcell, J. T. Greenplate, R. G. Cantrell, W. V. Hugie, F. J. Perlak, R. T. Fraley
    Pages 79-94

  7. Insect Tolerant Cotton in India

    • S. Parimi, B. R. Char, R. K. Goravale, C. B. Chaporkar
    Pages 95-111

  8. Insect Resistance Management for Transgenic Bt Cotton

    • G. Head, T. Dennehy
    Pages 113-125

  9. Opportunities for Engineering Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Cotton Plants

    • R. D. Allen
    Pages 127-160

  10. Recent Advances in Molecular Biology Research on Cotton Fiber Development

    • X. X. Shangguan, N. Yu, L. J. Wang, X. Y. Chen
    Pages 161-175

  11. Global Adoption of Biotech Cotton, 1996 to 2007

    • C. James, B. Choudhary
    Pages 177-196

  12. Regulatory Systems and Requirements for Genetically Engineered Cotton from Lab to Land

    • K. K. Tripathi, S. R. Rao
    Pages 197-220

  13. Socioeconomic Impacts of Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) Cotton

    • M. Qaim, A. Subramanian, P. Sadashivappa
    Pages 221-240

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 241-245
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About this book

The food, feed, ?ber, and fuel needs of the changing world pose the challenge of doubling or tripling of world food, feed, and ?ber production by the year 2050 to meet the needs of a 11 billion global population. In addition, the dramatic changes in food prices in the recent years further warrant that production and productivity need to be enhanced to ensure adequate supplies. Biotechnology can make a signi?cant contribution to this effort as demonstrated by cotton and other crops; the new advances in biotechnology have made it possible to develop plants that contain genes that were not possible to be developed by sexual means. Cotton has been a leader in the use of biotechnology. With the introduction of Bt cotton, followed by stacked cotton products (insect and herbicide tolerance) and extensive use of molecular breeding tools, cotton cultivation has been much improved. The contributions in this book illustrate the scienti?c advances that are going on in cotton and the impact they continue to deliver for all cotton growers. Twelve percent of the global cotton area is now under biotech products at 15. 5 million ha. The primary bene?ts from using genetically engineered cotton include reduced insecticide use, lower production costs, improved yields, lower farming risks, and increased opportunities to grow cotton in areas of severe pest infestation.

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“The well-chosen panel of internationally renowned authors give us chapters on cotton’s history, breeding systems, genomics, transformation, breeding for fibre and yield enhancement, nematode resistance, the use of single and multiple action abiotic stress genes from antioxidants to ubiquitins and explanations of DNA markers, QTL mapping, genome wide introgression, etc, with excellent and up-to-date references. … This is a readable and thorough guide for those who wish to understand the history, development and future prospects for advanced breeding in cotton globally … .” (Derek Russell, Experimental Agriculture, Vol. 47 (2), 2011)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Mahyco Research Center, Dawalwadi, India

    Usha B. Zehr

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cotton

  • Book Subtitle: Biotechnological Advances

  • Editors: Usha B. Zehr

  • Series Title: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04796-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-04795-4Published: 04 February 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26226-5Published: 04 May 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-04796-1Published: 13 January 2010

  • Series ISSN: 0934-943X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2512-3696

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 245

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology

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