BookShakeel Ahmad, Mirza Hasanuzzaman, editors.
Summary: 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.
Contents:
1. World Cotton Production and Consumption: An Overview
2. Soil Management and Tillage Practices for Growing Cotton Crop
3. Managing Planting Time for Cotton Production
4. Sowing Methods for Cotton Production
5.Irrigation Scheduling for Cotton Cultivation
6. Role of Macro Nutrients in Cotton Production
7. Essential Micronutrients for Cotton Production
8.Plant Growth Regulators for Cotton Production in Changing Environment
9. Weeds Management in Cotton
10. Pollination Behavior of Cotton Crop and its Management
11. Insect Pests of Cotton and their Management
12. Ecological Management of Cotton Insect Pests
13. Cotton Diseases and Their Management
14.Cotton Diseases and Disorders under Changing Climate
16. Cotton Relay Intercropping under Continuous Cotton-Wheat Cropping System
17. Cotton-Based Intercropping Systems
18. Abiotic Stresses Mediated Changes Morphophysiology of Cotton Plant
19. Salinity Tolerance in Cotton
20. Heat Stress in Cotton: Responses and Adaptive Mechanisms
21. Applications of Crop Modeling in Cotton Production
22. Climate Resilient Cotton Production System: A Case Study in Pakistan
23. Cotton Ontogeny
24. Molecular Breeding of Cotton for Drought Stress Tolerance
25. Biotechnology for Cotton Improvement
26. Development of Transgenic Cotton for Combating Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
27. Production and Processing of Quality Cottonseed
28. Quality Aspects of Cotton Lint
29. Modern Concepts and Techniques for Better Cotton Production
30. Diverse Uses of Cotton: From Products to Byproducts.