The use of cotton buds for actively cleaning of the ears is common despite the old adage ‘do not put anything smaller than your elbow in the ear’. The cotton buds are commonly used to remove the ear wax. The frequently reported complications secondary to cotton bud use include wax impaction, otitis externa and tympanic membrane perforation. Not infrequently, cotton buds can lodge in the ear can...

Background and Rationale The scientific infrastructure in support of cotton research and improvement took a ‘giant leap forward’ with the release of the first ‘gold-standard’ cotton reference genome sequence on 5 January 2012. Later in 2012, two independent publications (Paterson et al. 2012; Wang et al. 2012) provided initial descriptions of the basic genome of cotton, with one of these also r...

Target of rapamycin (TOR) acts as an important regulator of cell growth, development and stress responses in most examined diploid eukaryotes. However, little is known about TOR in tetraploid species such as cotton. Here, we show that TORC1-S6K-RPS6, the major signaling components, are conserved and further expanded in cotton genome. Though the cotton seedlings are insensitive to rapamycin, AZD...

Table 1. 2007 Estimated Return over Variable Costs for Cotton and Peanuts. Non-Irrigated Non-Irrigated Irrigated Irrigated Cotton Peanuts Cotton Peanuts Harvest Price 1/ $0.60 $0.21 $0.60 $0.21 Yield 750 300

Redroot pigweed is one of the injurious agricultural weeds on a worldwide basis. Understanding of its interference impact in crop field will provide useful information for weed control programs. The effects of redroot pigweed on cotton at densities of 0, 0.125, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, and 8 plants m(-1) of row were evaluated in field experiments conducted in 2013 and 2014 at Institute of Cotton Res...

Cotton has widespread applications in textile industries due its interesting physicochemical properties. The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of biofield energy treatment on the spectral, and thermal properties of the cotton. The study was executed in two groups namely control and treated. The control group persisted as untreated, and the treated group received Mr. Trive...

Africa, both francophone as well as anglophone, has traditionally been an important cotton production base. Cotton produced in Africa is mainly exported by international merchants to Asia, where today almost 80% of world cotton fibre is processed into yarn. Fibre transformation rates in Africa are at a historic low, with only 5% of francophone and 43% of anglophone African cotton being processe...

Bollgard® II was compared to Bollgard® and conventional (i.e., non-Bt) cotton in order to observe effectiveness against the Heliothine complex and various lepidopterous pests. In the trial, Bollgard II and Bollgard performed marginally better when compared to conventional cotton with respect to square, bloom, and boll damage. Bollgard II performed significantly better than Bollgard and conventi...

The presence of defects in cold mercerizing of cotton goods led to the creation of a new method, called hot mercerizing in which caustic soda solution is used at a high temperature. Hot mercerizing is successfully used in cotton blended with some other fibers. In cotton/polyester blend fabrics, this treatment serves a dual purpose: subjectively, it imparts a silklike &#10&#10&#10soft handle to ...

The effects of two entomopathogenic fungal endophytes, Beauveria bassiana and Purpureocillium lilacinum (formerly Paecilomyces lilacinus), were assessed on the reproduction of cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover (Homoptera:Aphididae), through in planta feeding trials. In replicate greenhouse and field trials, cotton plants (Gossypium hirsutum) were inoculated as seed treatments with two concent...