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Transgenic Cotton: From Biotransformation Methods to Agricultural Application

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Transgenic Cotton

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 958))

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Transgenic cotton is among the first transgenic plants commercially adopted around the world. Since it was first introduced into the field in the middle of 1990s, transgenic cotton has been quickly adopted by cotton farmers in many developed and developing countries. Transgenic cotton has offered many important environmental, social, and economic benefits, including reduced usage of pesticides, indirect increase of yield, minimizing environmental pollution, and reducing labor and cost. Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation method is the major method for obtaining transgenic cotton. However, pollen tube pathway-mediated method is also used, particularly by scientists in China, to breed commercial transgenic cotton. Although transgenic cotton plants with disease-resistance, abiotic stress tolerance, and improved fiber quality have been developed in the past decades, insect-resistant and herbicide-tolerant cotton are the two dominant transgenic cottons in the transgenic cotton market.

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Zhang, B. (2013). Transgenic Cotton: From Biotransformation Methods to Agricultural Application. In: Zhang, B. (eds) Transgenic Cotton. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 958. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-212-4_1

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