Overview
- Everything about the improvement of cotton through biotechnological methods in one volume
Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry (AGRICULTURE, volume 42)
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Biotechnology for the Improvement of Cotton; Establishment of Callus Culture and Somatic Embryogenesis; Protoplast Culture; Micropropagation, and the Conservation of Germplasm
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Interspecific Hybridization, Embryo/Ovule Culture; In Vitro Fertilization; RAPD; Heterosis
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Anther/Pollen Culture; Parthenogenesis and Haploid Breeding
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Somaclonal Variation/ Genetic Variability; Plants Tolerant to Salt and Water Stress, High Temperature and Nematodes (for plants resistant to insects and herbicides see Chaps V.2,3, this Vol.)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cotton
Editors: Y. P. S. Bajaj
Series Title: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80373-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-80375-8Published: 19 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-80373-4Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0934-943X
Series E-ISSN: 2512-3696
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 367
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Plant Sciences