Cotton [Paperback]

Cotton is a multipurpose crop and produces lint, the most important source of fiber used in the textile industry, oil, seed meal, and hulls.
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.Cotton is a multipurpose crop and produces lint, the most important source of fiber used in the textile industry, oil, seed meal, and hulls.
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.Section I Biotechnology for the Improvement of Cotton; Establishment of Callus Culture and Somatic Embryogenesis; Protoplast Culture; Micropropagation and the Conservation of Germplasm.- I.1 Biotechnology for the Improvement of Cotton.- 1 General Account.- 2 Biotechnology Studies on Cotton.- 3 Summary and Prospects.- References and Further Reading.- I.2 Establishment of Callus Culture, Somatic Embryogenesis, and the Regeneration of Cotton Plants.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Establishment of Callus.- 3 Differentiation of Callus, Somatic Embryogenesis, and Plant Regeneration.- 4 Transfer of Plants to the Field.- 5 Summary.- Refel³"