Palmitic acid (C16:0) already makes up approximately 25% of the total fatty acids in the conventional cotton seed oil. However, further enhancements in palmitic acid content at the expense of the predominant unsaturated fatty acids would provide increased oxidative stability of cotton seed oil and also impart the high melting point required for making margarine, shortening and confectionary pro...

Five upland cotton cultivars were crossed in a complete diallel crossing system to investigate inheritance pattern and combining ability of parents for different fiber quality traits like staple length, fiber strength, fineness and uniformity. The study was carried out in the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad during the years 2005-07. Highly signif...

Water scarcity is the major limiting factor for oasis-desert agricultural production of cotton. It necessary to improve cotton drought tolerance and minimize drought-related crop losses, transgenic approach efficient improvement. In order evaluate value ScALDH21 (G. hirsutum L.), it was tested in main region south Xinjiang, an environment extreme around desert. Transgenic cotton, overexpressing...

Monitoring flower development can provide useful information for production management, estimating yield and selecting specific genotypes of crops. The main goal of this study was to develop a methodology to detect and count cotton flowers, or blooms, using color images acquired by an unmanned aerial system. The aerial images were collected from two test fields in 4 days. A convolutional neural...

Fitness costs of resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crops occur in the absence of Bt toxins, when individuals with resistance alleles are less fit than individuals without resistance alleles. As costs of Bt resistance are common, refuges of non-Bt host plants can delay resistance not only by providing susceptible individuals to mate with resistant individuals, but also by selecting again...

Cotton plant is one of the most important economic crops in the world which supplies natural fiber for textile industry. The crucial traits of cotton fiber quality are fiber length and strength, which are mostly determined by the fiber elongation stage. Annexins are assumed to be involved in regulating fiber elongation, but direct evidences remain elusive. Recently, we have investigated the act...

Transgenic cotton plants (Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner (Bt)) has significant influenced the integrated pest management around world. In Colombia, Anthonomus grandis Boheman and Spodoptera complex are currently considered main pests in crops. Therefore, this study evaluated effect of Bt (Cry1Ac Cry2Ab) non-Bt on population fluctuation during two years Tolima region. A Pearson correlation matr...

In Australia, indigenous Fusarium oxysporum consist of at least five genetically distinct lineages and the two strains (VCG 11&12) of F. oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum (Fov) are genetically related to lineage A, suggesting that they evolved locally. This is consistent with the observation that virulence of a lineage A isolate increased after 10 successive infections on susceptible cotton in the g...

Reniform nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis) is a major pest of cotton in the southeastern United States. The objective of this study was to examine the variation of reniform nematode populations from cotton-growing locations in the United States where it is prevalent. Multivariate analysis of variance and discriminant analysis were used to determine the variability of morphology in males and i...