Cotton is a major cash crop classified as moderately tolerant to salt stress (threshold ECe = 7.7 dS m-1). In the present study, set of 21 homozygous advanced breeding lines cotton (Gossypium herbaceum L.), including one variety G Cot 23 was evaluated over three years identify stable high yielding genotypes under stress. Weighted Average Absolute Scores BLUPs (WAASB) stability index, which base...

Organic agriculture is one of the most widely known alternative production systems advocated for its benefits to soil, environment, health and economic well-being of farming communities. Rapid increase in the market demand for organic products presents a remarkable opportunity for expansion of organic agriculture. A thorough understanding of the context specific motivations of farmers for adopt...

Cotton is one of the most important cash crops in the world and a few specific models have been built to simulate and predict cotton plants growth and development, such as L-OZCOT (Hanan and Hearn, 2003). The functional-structural GREENLAB model aims at simulating topological and morphological growth processes at organ scale for general plants (Yan et al., 2004). It has been used to investigate...

The roles of non-cellulosic polysaccharides in cotton fiber development are poorly understood. Combining glycan microarrays and in situ analyses with monoclonal antibodies, polysaccharide linkage analyses and transcript profiling, the occurrence of heteromannan and heteroxylan polysaccharides and related genes in developing and mature cotton (Gossypium spp.) fibers has been determined. Comparat...

Iqbal, M., M. NaeeM, U. azIz, J. afzal and M. alaM KhaN, 2014. an overview of cotton leaf curl virus disease, persistant challeng for cotton production. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 20: 405-415 Cotton leaf curl virus (ClCuV) disease is crucial threat for cotton production in Pakistan. ClCuV belongs to genus Begomovirus of Geminiviridae family and is transmitted by Bemisia tabaci. Drastic reduction in ...

Cotton is the most important commercial crop of India and heterosis in cotton is well documented with 7 to 50 per cent heterosis in interspecific (G. hirsutum x G. barbadense) hybrids, 10 to 138 per cent in intra-hirsutum hybrids and upto 220 per cent in desi (G. herbaceum x G. arboreum) hybrids. Currently hybrid cotton, especially Bt cotton hybrids, occupies more than 80 per cent of cultivated...

in order to identify the best maturity time for excision of fertilized ovules in interspecific hybridization, intercrosses were made between two diploid (gossypium herbaceum and g. arboreum, 2n=26) and two tetraploid species (g. barbadense and g. hirsutum, 2n=52). flower morphology, growth rate of ovules and ovaries, as well as fiber growth pattern in various time scales post anthesis were reco...

The whole cotton seed and cotton seed meal have great value in animal production. However, such a valuable cotton seed products are not very much used in Nepal. Though agronomic work of cotton was started from very beginning with establishment of cotton development board in Nepalganj but the board have lack of multidisciplinary approaches. The valuable cotton seed products have been used elsewh...

The species of Copidosoma Ratzeburg (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) are reviewed for Norway. Sixteen species are recognized, of which one, Copidosoma longicaudata sp. nov., is newly described, illustrated and compared with closely related species. Seven species represent new distribution records for Norway--C. aithyia (Walker), C. genale (Thomson), C. herbaceum Mercet, C. primulum (Mercet), C. radnen...