Product Description
A stark reminder of the difficulties of financing a one-crop agrarian economy. ... Read more

Product Description
Here is a vital new source of "need-to-know" information for cotton industry professionals. Unlike other references that focus solely on growing the crop, this book also emphasizes the cotton industry as a whole, and includes material on the nature of cotton fibers and their processing; cotton standards and classification; and marketing strategies. ... Read more

Product Description
Sugar is among the most traded commodities with exports accounting for over one quarter of global production. In this book, the authors discuss the global sugar market; the application of nano - and ultrafiltration in the sugar industry, and sugar utilisation by fungi providing leads for fungal metabolic engineering in crude plant substrates in industrial applications. Additionally, this book discusses cotton crops, the most popularly used textile fibre in the world. The average production of cotton fibre in the world is around 25 million metric tons per year. Additionally, the authors examine cotton fibre grading and classification methods which play pivotal roles in the pricing and marketing of cotton fibres; a look at how the cotton plant responds to different stresses in the breeding of more tolerant crops; and the planting status of cotton world-wide, among others. ... Read more

Product Description

A few members of the Gossypium (cotton) genus are cultivated for the production of elongated single-celled fibers valued worldwide at about $20 billion annually at the farm gate, and which sustain one of the world’s largest industries (textiles) with an annual worldwide economic impact of about $500 billion. In a number of ways, cotton production and the textile industry are closely tied to petrochemical usage. At a practical level, cotton genomics offers both bio-based carbon sequestration alternatives to petrochemical use, and improved sustainability of crop production.

The Gossypium (cotton) also genus presents novel opportunities to advance our understanding of the natural world and its organic evolution. In particular, the evolution of cultivated cottons from their wild ancestors has involved a fascinating series of events that offer scientists the opportunity to dissect the evolution of a novel organ, the ‘lint fiber’, and also to unravel the consequences of polyploidy, both for the generation of biodiversity and for crop productivity.

In this book, advances of the past decade will be summarized and synthesized to elucidate the current state of knowledge of the structure, function, and evolution of the Gossypium genome, and progress in the application of this knowledge to cotton improvement. This book will address five broad topics. First, as a backdrop for all studies of the genus, it is important to understand the naturally-occurring diversity in the genus, its organization and distribution, and its evolutionary history. Of special importance is the formation of a single polyploid from two (among 8) diploid genome types, the radiation of this polyploid, and the domestication and improvement of two (among 5 extant) polyploid species.

Product Description
This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

Product Description
Publisher: [London, McCorquodale ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on August 30, 2004. The length of the article is 447 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: August temps slow cotton maturity.(Mississippi Crop Report)
Author: Bonnie Coblentz
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 30, 2004
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 26Issue: 35Page: 3(1)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Table of Contents
table of contents
Foreword
Preface
contributors
Chapter 1: ecological adaptations ofGossypium species
Section 1: development of the plant
Chapter 2: vegetative growth and development of fruiting sites
Chapter 3: growth of roots
Chapter 4: influence of atmospheric parameters on growth and development
Chapter 5: temperature effects on growth, development and fiber properties
Chapter 6: effects of high temperatures and control fruiting I'm cotton yield
Chapter 7: water deficits and reproduction
Chapter 8 source-sink relations as affected by water stress during Boll development
Chapter 9: effects of nutrient elements on fruiting efficiency
Chapter 10: the nitrogen stress syndrome
Chapter 11: salinity and fruiting
Chapter 12: hormonal relations during reproduction
Chapter 13: use of plant growth regulators for crop modification
Chapter 14: physiology of defoliation in cotton production
Section 2 photosynthetic production and distribution
Chapter 15: the biochemistry of photosynthesis
Chapter 16: carbohydrate production and partitioning in the canopy
Chapter 17: photosynthesis, cry matter production and growth in CO2 enriched atmospheres
Chapter 18: feedback control and stress effects on photosynthesis
Chapter 19: a conceptual model of stress effects
Section 3: boll development
Chapter 20: integrated eventsin the flower and fruit
Chapter 21: mineral compartmentation within the boll
Chapter 22: carbohydrate distribution in bolls
Chapter 23: Lint development
Chapter 24: stress Influences on fiber development
Chapter 25: hormonal influences in fiber development
Chapter 26: the outer epidermis of the cottonseed
Chapter 27: chemistry and biology of cottonseed globulin's
Chapter 28: differential gene
Chapter 29: synthesis and compartmentalization of enzymes during seed maturation
Section 4: seed and germination
Chapter 30: developmental aspects of planting seed quality
Chapter 31: weathering: changes In planting seed quality between ripening and harvest
Chapter32: post-harvest factors affecting seed quality
Chapter 33: techniques to evaluate planting seed quality
Chapter 34: germination and stand establishment
Chapter 35: seed quality and stand establishment
Chapter 36: field environment and stand establishment
Section 5: special topics
Chapter 37: food and feeding quality of cottonseed
Chapter 38: physiology a secondary products
Chapter 39: Organ and tissue cultures in cotton
Chapter 40: the interface between plant physiology and genetics
Literature cited
Index
... Read more

Product Description
This book is a synthesis and a celebration of a large body of agro-ecological research carried out on the management of the pests of cotton, one of the world�s major crops and one which has historically been a very heavy consumer of inputs of pesticides. It demonstrates how agro-ecological approaches to pest management are at last approaching the �mainstream�, with an increasing recognition that farmland delivers a wide range of ecosystem services (nature�s goods and services), including but certainly not solely comprising the production of food. ... Read more

Product Description
This text provides an overview of the emerging field of the study of complex plant genomes and the laboratory techniques that will enhance genetic improvement of cotton. It also addresses important issues and opportunities that face the cotton industry. Topics include the approaches utilized in breeding and development of cotton cultivars in Australia; the expression and regulation of lipid transfer protein genes in cotton fibre; and RFLP diversity in cotton. ... Read more

Product Description
Cotton has been a central focus in the development of integrated pest management (IPM), a scientific approach which systematically examines and uses all available production technologies to minimize pest damage. This book is the most complete and authoritative work on this subject, drawing together information on all the key IPM strategies that are applicable to cotton. Other topics include the development and use of pest models, quantitative sampling principles in cotton IPM, economic injury levels and thresholds for cotton pests and biological control of pest populations. The scope of the material and the eminence of the contributing authors in this field make it an important contribution to the literature on cotton IPM. The text will be of interest to plant pathologists, entomologists, agronomists, plant geneticists, and soil scientists. ... Read more

Product Description
Designed as a concise introduction to a complex subject matter, The History of Cotton surveys centuries of heritage linked to one of the American South's most storied and important agricultural products and one of humankind's oldest crops. Beginning in ancient Asia and Africa, the story of cotton spans continents and cultures to arrive in the New World.

Accessible to students and general readers alike, this study quickly narrows its focus to the important role of cotton in the South, looking specifically at the cotton industry; methods for growing, harvesting, and ginning cotton; cotton classification; uses of cottonseed; and the dreaded infestation of the boll weevil. The concluding chapter chronicles the development of the South Carolina Cotton Museum, the sponsoring agency of this volume.

The History of Cotton includes sixty-one black-and-white and ten color photographs, many from the Cliff Smith Postcard Collection, to provide a visual record of cotton's role across America--particularly in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, California, and Massachusetts. ... Read more

Product Description
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. ... Read more