Cotton Biotechnological Advances /
The growing global population poses the challenge to the scientific community of doubling or tripling the food, feed and fiber production by the year 2050. Biotechnology can make a significant contribution to this effort. This volume reviews the use of biotechnology in cotton, which is the leading p...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
2010.
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| Series: | Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry,
65 |
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04796-1 |
Table of Contents:
- Cotton: An Introduction
- Cotton in India
- Cotton Genomics
- Cotton Transformation
- New Tools and Traits for Cotton Improvement
- Insect Tolerant Cotton in India
- Insect Resistance Management for Transgenic Bt Cotton
- Opportunities for Engineering Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Cotton Plants
- Recent Advances in Molecular Biology Research on Cotton Fiber Development
- Global Adoption of Biotech Cotton, 1996 to 2007
- Regulatory Systems and Requirements for Genetically Engineered Cotton from Lab to Land
- Socioeconomic Impacts of Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) Cotton.