Cotton Production and Uses

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. World Cotton Production and Consumption: An Overview

   • Muhammad Azam Khan, Abdul Wahid, Maqsood Ahmad, Muhammad Tayab Tahir, Mukhtar Ahmed, Shakeel Ahmad et al.

   Pages 1-7

3. Soil Management and Tillage Practices for Growing Cotton Crop

   • Muhammad Arif Ali, Fariha Ilyas, Subhan Danish, Ghulam Mustafa, Niaz Ahmed, Sajjad Hussain et al.

   Pages 9-30

4. Managing Planting Time for Cotton Production

   • Muhammad Naveed Afzal, Muhammad Tariq, Muhammad Ahmed, Ghulam Abbas, Zahid Mehmood

   Pages 31-44

5. Sowing Methods for Cotton Production

   • Omer Farooq, Khuram Mubeen, Azhar Abbas Khan, Shakeel Ahmad

   Pages 45-57

6. Irrigation Scheduling for Cotton Cultivation

   • Sajjad Hussain, Ashfaq Ahmad, Aftab Wajid, Tasneem Khaliq, Nazim Hussain, Muhammad Mubeen et al.

   Pages 59-80

7. Role of Macronutrients in Cotton Production

   • Niaz Ahmed, Muhammad Arif Ali, Subhan Danish, Usman Khalid Chaudhry, Sajjad Hussain, Waseem Hassan et al.

   Pages 81-104

8. Essential Micronutrients for Cotton Production

   • Niaz Ahmed, Muhammad Arif Ali, Sajjad Hussain, Waseem Hassan, Fiaz Ahmad, Subhan Danish

   Pages 105-117

9. Plant Growth Regulators for Cotton Production in Changing Environment

   • Sibgha Noreen, Seema Mahmood, Sumrina Faiz, Salim Akhter

   Pages 119-144

10. Weed Management in Cotton

    • Muhammad Tariq, Khalid Abdullah, Shakeel Ahmad, Ghulam Abbas, Muhammad Habib ur Rahman, Muhammad Azim Khan

    Pages 145-161

11. Pollination Behavior of Cotton Crop and Its Management

    • Wali Muhammad, Munir Ahmad, Ijaz Ahmad

    Pages 163-175

12. Insect Pests of Cotton and Their Management

    • Muhammad Anees, Sarfraz Ali Shad

    Pages 177-212

13. Ecological Management of Cotton Insect Pests

    • Munir Ahmad, Wali Muhammad, Asif Sajjad

    Pages 213-238

14. Cotton Diseases and Their Management

    • Sobia Chohan, Rashida Perveen, Muhammad Abid, Muhammad Nouman Tahir, Muhammad Sajid

    Pages 239-270

15. Cotton Diseases and Disorders Under Changing Climate

    • Ateeq-ur-Rehman, Muhammad Mohsin Alam Bhatti, Ummad-ud din Umar, Syed Atif Hasan Naqvi

    Pages 271-282

16. Cotton-Based Cropping Systems and Their Impacts on Production

    • Amar Matloob, Farhena Aslam, Haseeb Ur Rehman, Abdul Khaliq, Shakeel Ahmad, Azra Yasmeen et al.

    Pages 283-310

17. Cotton Relay Intercropping Under Continuous Cotton-Wheat Cropping System

    • Khawar Jabran, Ahmad Nawaz, Ahmet Uludag, Shakeel Ahmad, Mubshar Hussain

    Pages 311-320

18. Cotton-Based Intercropping Systems

    • Atique-ur-Rehman, Hakoomat Ali, Naeem Sarwar, Shakeel Ahmad, Omer Farooq, Kamrun Nahar et al.

    Pages 321-340

19. Abiotic Stresses Mediated Changes in Morphophysiology of Cotton Plant

    • Sibgha Noreen, Shakeel Ahmad, Zartash Fatima, Iqra Zakir, Pakeeza Iqbal, Kamrun Nahar et al.

    Pages 341-366

20. Salinity Tolerance in Cotton

    • Niaz Ahmed, Usman Khalid Chaudhry, Muhammad Arif Ali, Fiaz Ahmad, Muhammad Sarfraz, Sajjad Hussain

    Pages 367-391

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the recent developments in cotton production and processing, including a number of genetic approaches, such as GM cotton for pest resistance, which have been hotly debated in recent decades. In the era of climate change, cotton is facing diverse abiotic stresses such as salinity, drought, toxic metals and environmental pollutants. As such, scientists are developing stress-tolerant cultivars using agronomic, genetic and molecular approaches. Gathering papers on these developments, this timely book is a valuable resource for a wide audience, including plant scientists, agronomists, soil scientists, botanists, environmental scientists and extention workers.

• Fiber crops
• Production technologies
• Plant breeding
• Postharvest technologies
• Climate change
• Plant ecophysiology
• climate change impacts

• Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

  Shakeel Ahmad

• Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  Mirza Hasanuzzaman

​Shakeel Ahmad received his Ph.D. from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. He then completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Georgia, USA. He joined the Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University as a lecturer in October 2002, and was promoted to Professor in 2016. Prof. Ahmad’s teaching and research has focused on arable crops, especially crop modeling, climate change impact assessment and adaptation strategies. He received the Research Productivity Award (RPA) from the Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST) in five consecutive years. Prof. Ahmad has published over 125 articles and 50 book chapters. And he is an editor and reviewer of several peer-reviewed, international journals. He is also an active life member of professional societies like the Pakistan Society of Agronomy and Pakistan Society of Botany. He has attended and presented papers and posters at national and international conferences in various countries.

Mirza Hasanuzzaman is a Professor of Agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in Dhaka. He received his Ph.D. on ‘Plant Stress Physiology and Antioxidant Metabolism’ from Ehime University, Japan. He completed his postdoctoral research at the Center of Molecular Biosciences, University of the Ryukyus, Japan. He was the recipient of the Australian Government’s Endeavour Research Fellowship for postdoctoral research at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Dr. Hasanuzzaman’s current work focuses on the physiological and molecular mechanisms of environmental stress tolerance. He has published over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals, edited six books and written 30 book chapters. He is an editor and reviewer for more than 50 peer-reviewed, international journals, and he was a recipient of the Publons Peer Review Award in 2017 and 2018. He has received various for his outstanding contributions in research and education, including the World Academy ofScience Young Scientist Award (2014).

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