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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: I Biotechnology for the Improvement of Cotton; Establishment of Callus Culture and Somatic Embryogenesis; Protoplast Culture, Micropropagation, and the Conservation of Germplasm
II Interspecific Hybridization, Embryo/Ovule Culture; In Vitro Fertilization; RAPD, Heterosis
III Anther/Pollen Culture; Parthenogenesis and Haploid Breeding
IV Somaclonal Variation; Genetic Variability for Plants Tolerant to Salt, High Temperature, Nematodes
V Genetic Transformation; Transgenic Cotton Plants Resistant to Insects, Herbicides; Field Trials; Risk Assessment Studies; Engineering of Fiber
VI Secondary Metabolites - Gossypol and Tannins 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.
List of contents
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.- I.2 Establishment of Callus Culture, Somatic Embryogenesis, and the Regeneration of Cotton Plants.- I.3 Regeneration of Plants from Cotton Protoplasts.- I.4 Micropropagation and the Conservation of Germplasm of Cotton.- Section II Interspecific Hybridization, Embryo/Ovule Culture; In Vitro Fertilization; RAPD; Heterosis.- II.1 Interspecific Hybridization in Cotton Through Embryo Rescue and Culture.- II.2 In Vitro Fertilization in Cotton.- II.3 In Vitro Culture of Cotton Ovules.- II.4 Use of Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) Markers to Assist Wide Hybridization in Cotton.- II.5 Heterosis in Cotton.- Section III Anther/Pollen Culture; Parthenogenesis and Haploid Breeding.- III.1 Anther Culture Studies and Pollen Embryogenesis in Cotton.- III.2 In Vitro Culture of Isolated Pollen of Cotton.- III.3 Parthenogenesis and Haploid Breeding in Gossypium hirsutum.- Section IV Somaclonal Variation/Genetic Variability; Plants Tolerant to Salt and Water Stress, High Temperature, and Nematodes (for plants resistant to insects and herbicides see Chaps. V.2,3 this Volume).- IV.1 Somaclonal Variation in Cotton.- IV.2 Salt and Water Stress-Tolerant Cotton.- IV.3 In Vitro Regeneration of High Temperature-Resistant Cotton Plants.- IV.4 Nematode Resistance in Cotton.- Section V Genetic Transformation; Transgenic Cotton Resistant to Insects and Herbicides; Field Trials; Risk Assessment Studies; Gentic Engineering of Fiber.- V.I Genetic Transformation of Cotton Through Particle Bombardment.- V.2 Insect-Resistant Transgenic Cotton.- V.3 Transgenic Cotton Resistant to the Herbicide 2,4-D.- V.4 Effect of Transgenic Cotton Expressing the Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki Endotoxin on Soil Microorganisms - Risk Assessment Studies.- V.5 Genetic Engineering of Cotton Fiber.- Section VI Secondary Metabolites - Gossypol and Tannins.- VI.1 Gossypol - A Unique Biologically Active Compound from the Cotton Plant.- VI.2 Tannins in Cotton.
