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Gossypium; cotton; droplets; germination; irrigation management; microirrigation; models; plant growth; plant height; water supply; Indonesia
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... The condition of cotton planting in South Sulawesi is always constrained in the fulfillment of water. All plant growth stages are not optimal to increase production, so it is necessary to introduce good water management technology, such as through water supply with drip irrigation system. This study aims to analyze the strategy of irrigation management in cotton plants using drip irrigation system ...
... Heliothine moths were trapped in south Georgia from June to November 2003 using pheromone baited wire-traps. Corn earworm traps were located in Berrien, Colquitt, Irwin, and Turner Counties from early June to late October/early November. Tobacco budworm traps were placed in Berrien, Colquitt, and Irwin Counties and monitored from early- to mid-July until 24 October. Traps for both moths were place ...
... Certain soils of the Eastern Cotton Belt are potentially Mn-toxic. The problem is not always economically prevented or corrected by conventional soil management practices. An alternative or supplemental procedure is to develop plant genotypes having superior resistance to Mn toxicity. Sixty-five cotton (Gossypium species) genotypes (cultivars, strains, and breeding lines) were screened in greenhou ...
... A procedure involving gas-liquid chromatography (GLC) of certain sugars in cotton leaves was studied. The use of hexamethyl-disilazane (HMDS) and trimethylchlorosilane (TMS) for silylation of fructose, glucose, and sucrose gave recovery percentages ranging from 71 to 105%. The substitution of trifluoracetic acid (TFA) for TMS gave recovery percentages of 91 to 109%. The use of TFA also improves th ...
... Cotton plants produce gossypol as a major secondary metabolite to resist insect herbivores and pathogens. Helicoverpa armigera may employ multigene families of detoxification enzymes to deal with this metabolite. So far, the strength of the transcriptional response to gossypol detoxification in the cotton bollworms remains poorly understood. Here, we investigated the genomewide transcriptional cha ...
... Insect pollination and biological pest control simultaneously influence crop yield, but are often investigated individually. This can lead to under‐ or over‐estimation of the importance of individual services when they interact to affect yield. Recent, limited evidence from field studies showed contrasting results with both additive and non‐additive positive and negative effects. To disentangle th ...
biotechnology; cotton; Gossypium; transgenic plants; Bacillus thuringiensis; crop damage; pesticides; pest resistance; crop yield; Argentina
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... Transgenic Bt cotton can halve pesticide application rates in Argentina while significantly increasing yields. Yield effects are bigger than in other countries, due to the current low levels of insecticide use. Although smallholder farmers are not currently using the technology, gross benefits are predicted to be highest for them. Biological model simulations show that rapid resistance buildup in ...
P. Vijaya Kumar; Santanu Kumar Bal; Rajkumar Dhakar; M. A. Sarath Chandran; A. V. M. Subba Rao; V. M. Sandeep; V. P. Pramod; S. N. Malleswari; G. Sudhakar; N. S. Solanki; H. S. Shivaramu; M. M. Lunagaria; K. K. Dakhore; V. M. Londhe; Mahender Singh; Pragyan Kumari; S. Subbulakshmi; M. H. Manjunatha; N. J. Chaudhari
Cajanus cajan; Gossypium; agrometeorology; agronomy; cotton; crop management; drought; monsoon season; peanuts; phenology; pigeon peas; prediction; protocols; research projects; India
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... Crop weather calendars (CWC) serve as tools for taking crop management decisions. However, CWCs are not dynamic, as they were prepared by assuming normal sowing dates and fixed occurrence as well as duration of phenological stages of rainfed crops. Sowing dates fluctuate due to variability in monsoon onset and phenology varies according to crop duration and stresses encountered. Realizing the disa ...
... The efficiency of using monosomic alien addition lines (MAALs) to introgress agronomical traits of interest carried by wild diploid Gossypium species into the main cultivated cotton species G. hirsutum depends on the opportunities of confronting the alien chromosome with the recipient background genome at each generation and on the occurrence of translocations and homoeologous recombinations. The ...
... KEY MESSAGE : Genetic improvements for many fiber traits are obtained by mutagenesis of elite cottons, mitigating genetic uniformity in this inbred polyploid by contributing novel alleles important to ongoing crop improvement. The elite gene pool of cotton (Gossypium spp.) has less diversity than those of most other major crops, making identification of novel alleles important to ongoing crop impr ...
... Weed management in cotton is a major challenge because of the slow initial crop growth. Further, noxious weeds (purple nutsedge: Cyperus rotundus L.) and invasive weeds (smooth joyweed: Alternanthera paronychioides A. St.-Hil.) are difficult to control. Thus, the small and poor farmers of the Indian sub-continent are in need of effective integrated weed management strategies. Intercropping in the ...
protein synthesis; Meloidogyne incognita; Gossypium; pest resistance; protein content; amino acid metabolism; roots; infection; plant proteins
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... The root-knot nematode (RKN), Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid and White) Chitwood, is a sedentary endoparasite that retards growth and development of cotton, Gossypium spp. L., by attacking the root system, causing galling, stunting, and other adverse effects. All commercial cultivars have susceptibility to RKN, although they vary in degree of susceptibility. Plant breeding has led to the developmen ...
... In this work, we characterized various unconventional pulping raw materials in terms of their contents in hollocelulose, α-cellulose, lignin, ethanol-benzene extractables, ash, and hot water and 1% soda solubles. Also, we characterized pulp obtained from each material by using an ethyleneglycol concentration of 65% at 180°C for 75min, followed by beating at 1500 revolutions in a PFI refiner--all o ...
... Bacterial communities in rhizosphere soil of healthy and diseased cotton (infected by the pathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae Kleb.) were examined at different plant growth stages using T-RFLP and 16S rDNA clone library. At flowering and bolling, soil samples from the rhizosphere of healthy cotton had the highest richness, whereas the highest evenness was found in the rhizosphere of diseased co ...
cotton; decision support systems; insect pests; carbamate pesticides; data collection; Pseudococcidae; Gossypium; data analysis; incidence; decision making; Pakistan
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... Traditionally the agriculture expert's knowledge is descriptive and experimental, therefore, it is difficult to describe it mathematically and subsequently build agriculture Decision Support Systems (DSS). Furthermore, the corresponding data may be in such a raw form that it cannot be used in a DSS. The Agriculture Decision Support System (ADSS) is a 26-month project based on the Agro-met data fro ...
... Previous studies showed that there were differences among AD1, CMS‐D2 and CMS‐D8 in the atpA gene region of the mitochondrial genome of cotton, but their detailed DNA sequence differences were unclear. RFLP analysis here showed that the mitochondrial atpA gene existed as two copies of different lengths in each line. Inverse polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequencing results revealed that one c ...
... Chromosome substitution (CS) lines in plants are a powerful genetic resource for analyzing the contribution of chromosome segments to phenotypic variance. In this study, a series of interspecific cotton (Gossypium spp.) CS lines were used to identify a new germplasm resource, and to validate chromosomal regions and favorable alleles associated with nematode or fungal disease resistance traits. The ...
... Stagnated crop improvement has raised questions of whether and how current crop cultivars can be further improved. Genes are the core determinants of performance of all cultivars. Here, we report the molecular basis of plant breeding and address these questions by analyzing 226 GFL genes controlling and accurately predicting fiber length, an important breeding objective trait, in cotton (Gossypium ...
... Insect-derived volatiles seem to provide reliable chemical cues that plants could employ to defend themselves. Here we investigated the effect of pheromone emission from a closely associated (Anthonomus grandis; boll weevil) and an unassociated (Tibraca limbativentris) herbivore on cotton volatile emission. Exposure to A. grandis aggregation pheromone induced cotton defence response by enhancing t ...
... Owing to its hygroscopicity biodiesel may accumulate water during storage, which becomes favorable to the growth of microorganisms. In order to control microbial contamination, use of various chemical biocides has been studied. However, the addition of a natural substance simultaneously with antioxidant and microbial growth inhibition could prove advantageous in the prevention of biodiesel oxidati ...
... Polymerase chain reaction-amplified and sequenced isolates of Antrodia gossypium, Phlebiopsis gigantea and Heterobasidion parviporum from decaying Norway spruce wood blocks after three and six months, which exhibited linear growth, were investigated. P. gigantea strains showed the fastest growth, whereas A. gossypium growth was five times slower. The differences between the mean daily increment of ...
... Using apparent ileal digestible (AID) amino acids (AA) for feed formulation is considered preferable to formulating diets based on a total AA basis. However, data on AID tryptophan (Trp) requirements of broiler chicks are scarce. This study was conducted to determine the AID Trp requirements for broiler chicks from 22 to 42 d of age. A total of 1,008 (504 male and 504 female) 22-day-old broilers ( ...
... When seeds are treated with a high-voltage electric field (HVEF) to improve seed vigor, due to the large differences in the biological electromagnetic effects on different types of seeds, the methods of variance analysis and regression analysis based on data statistics are generally used to construct the optimal electric field dose prediction model; however, the generalization performance of the p ...
... Whitefly (Bemicia tabaci) is an insect pest that causes severe losses in economically important crops by sucking the plant sap and transmitting plant viruses. We used the promising new approach of plant-mediated artificial miRNA (amiRNA) expression against three essential genes of whitefly. The Arabidopsis thaliana miR159 precursor was modified and engineered to express artificial miRNAs (amiRNAs) ...
Gossypium; Triticum aestivum; Zea mays; aquifers; basins; corn; cotton; crop production; cropping systems; cultivars; deficit irrigation; dry environmental conditions; farmers; mulching; no-tillage; rain; researchers; water conservation; water potential; water table; winter wheat; China
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... The Hai Basin in China exemplifies problems that are observed in many arid environments: excessive water consumption, depletion of aquifers, and damage to eco-systems. Progressively since the 1970s water resources in Hai Basin have been over-exploited, primarily for irrigation, while the water requirements of other sectors have increased. Water tables are falling and outflows to the sea are sporad ...
cotton; cultural control; wheat; varieties; varietal resistance; Gossypium; Triticum aestivum; population density; Aphis gossypii; natural enemies; pest resistance; relay cropping; China
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... The cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover (Homoptera: Aphididae), is an important cotton pest in northern China, especially in the seedling stage of cotton. After large scale commercial use of transgenic Bt cotton, cotton aphids became one of the most important cotton pests. A 2-year study was conducted to evaluate the role of four winter wheat varieties that were resistant or susceptible to wheat a ...
... Brazil features prominently in the world’s textile industry due to its know-how in cotton cultivation. However, the denim production chain generates relevant environmental impacts due to some characteristics of its production chain. This study investigated the usefulness of actions for improving environmental – measured in terms of Climate Changes (CC) –, and energy performances, represented by Pr ...
... We carried out an assessment of the resistance of 71 accessions of cotton (Gossypium spp. L.) to the aphid Aphis gossypii and to leafhoppers under natural infestation. Our objectives were (i) to improve the methods for screening cotton germplasm for resistance to both pests, and (ii) to test the existence of genetic correlation between resistances to both insects. For both insects, the percentage ...
... Cotton root rot (CRR) is a persistent soilborne fungal disease that is devastating to cotton in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico. Research has shown that CRR can be prevented or at least mitigated by applying a fungicide at planting, but the fungicide should be applied precisely to minimize the quantity of product used and the treatment cost. The CRR-infested areas within a field are consistent fr ...
... The timely monitoring of crop disease development is very important for precision agriculture applications. Remote sensing-based vegetation indices (VIs) can be good indicators of crop disease severity, but current methods are mainly dependent on manual ground survey results. Based on VI normalization, an automated crop disease severity grading method without the use of ground surveys was proposed ...
... Field studies have recently demonstrated the occurrence of K deficiency in California cotton fields, and, further, unusually high rates of K fertilizers were required to correct the deficiencies. A greenhouse and laboratory study demonstrated that fixation of the added K was the reason high K applications were required. Two soils from problem fields were treated with K at rates ranging from 0 to 4 ...
... The susceptibility of the tobacco budworm (Heliothis virescens [F.]) and bollworm (Helicoverpa zea [Boddie]) populations from 14 cotton-producing states to Cry1Ac protein of Bacillus thuringiensis was monitored for the eighth consecutive year in 2003. The survivorship of first generation larvae obtained from mass mating males captured in pheromone traps near cotton fields (wild population) with la ...
... Bacterial blight (BB, caused by Xanthomonas citri pv. malvacearum, Xcm) is a worldwide disease of cotton (Gossypium spp.). The disease has been effectively controlled through the use of BB resistant cultivars and planting of acid-delinted seed. However, a resurgence of BB has been noted in the US in recent years due to the spread of Xcm race 18 and growing of susceptible transgenic cultivars, whic ...
... We assess 47 peer-reviewed articles that have applied stated economics methods to measure the farm-level impacts of Bt cotton in developing agriculture from 1996. We focus on methods, although findings are also contrasted and compared in qualitative terms. The central research question assessed by the articles reviewed is: what are the current and potential advantages of transgenic cotton with res ...
Moysés Nascimento; Ana Carolina Campana Nascimento; Fabyano Fonseca e Silva; Paulo Eduardo Teodoro; Camila Ferreira Azevedo; Tâmara Rebecca Albuquerque de Oliveira; Antônio Teixeira do Amaral Junior; Cosme Damião Cruz; Francisco José Correia Farias; Luiz Paulo de Carvalho
... The genotype by environment interaction is essential in any plant breeding program. Methodologies allowing the evaluation of nonlinear genotype responses to environmental variation allied to prior beliefs on unknown parameters bring new insights for breeders. In this context, we aimed to propose a Bayesian segmented regression model to infer on phenotypic adaptability and stability of cotton (Goss ...
... Seed application of Beauveria bassiana 11-98 resulted in endophytic colonization of tomato and cotton seedlings and protection against plant pathogenic Rhizoctonia solani and Pythium myriotylum. Both pathogens cause damping off of seedlings and root rot of older plants. The degree of disease control achieved depended upon the population density of B. bassiana conidia on seed. Using standard platin ...
... A greenhouse study was conducted to develop time-activity budgets for third instar tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens (F.), and to determine its spatial distribution patterns on chlordimeform-treated cotton plants. Compared with untreated plants, chlordimeform 1) reduced plant-feeding by larvae, 2) increased movement by larvae over plant surfaces, especially over leaves and stems, and 3) increas ...
... The behavior of a pyrethroid-resistant strain (R) and a-susceptible strain (S) of Heliothis virescens (F.) was observed on budding (flower buds) cotton plants in the greenhouse. Treatments were plants sprayed with (1) chlordimeform at the LC20 for the S strain; (2) cypermethrin at the LC20 for the S strain; (3) a mixture of chlordimeform and cypermethrin at the LC20 for the S strain (combined LC20 ...
... Six cotton lines were evaluated for resistance to tobacco budworm, heliothis virescens (F.), in two glasshouse experiments. The cotton lines were four transgenic somaclones carrying the delta-endotoxin gene (Bt) from Bacillus thuringiensis variety kurstaki and a marker gene (NPTII), and two control lines without the Bt gene (one transgenic control carrying only the NPTII gene, an antibiotic resist ...
Gossypium; cultivars; Bemisia tabaci; chemical control; oviposition; greenhouse experimentation; Arizona; California
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... The sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius), was studied under greenhouse conditions to determine times of adult ecdysis and precopulatory pairing behavior and to observe its selection of host plants. In March, ecdysis of adults in a greenhouse began at 0800 hours and reached a peak at from 1000 to 1200 hours on one day and from 0800 to 1000 hours the next day. Ecdysis continued through t ...
Gossypium; acephate; cotton; insect pests; larvae; triazophos; India
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... Three dosages of the acephate 97% DF viz., 436.5, 582.0 and 727.5 g a.i. ha⁻¹ along with three treated checks (acephate 75% SP; triazophos 40% EC and profenophos 50% EC) were evaluated against jassids and bollworm complex in cotton during 2011 and 2012. All the treatments were significantly superior over untreated check. Among the treatments, maximum reduction in jassid population 90.2% and 85.6% ...
... Biochemical studies were carried out on non-Bt, Bt and wild cotton genotypes. Biochemical investigations using resistant, moderately resistant and susceptible genotypes indicated that the content of total sugars, reducing sugars, non reducing sugars, chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and total chlorophyll content were higher in resistant as compared to susceptible genotypes at both the stages i.e. heal ...
Gossypium; biodiesel; carbon monoxide; catalysts; cooking fats and oils; cotton; cottonseed oil; emissions; energy use and consumption; fuel production; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; linoleic acid; methanol; molecular weight; nitrogen oxides; palmitic acid; temperature; transesterification; wastes
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... Transesterification of waste cotton cooking oil (WCCO) is reported here. The GC-MS analysis of WCCO oil was studied and the major fatty acids were found to be Palmitic acid (28.26%) and Linoleic acid (43.14%). The molecular weight of the oil was 872.049 g/mol (GC-MS). The results showed maximum biodiesel yield of 96% when the reaction temperature, time, methanol/oil ratio and catalyst loading were ...
... Neonates and second instars of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) were fed for 4 days on potted cotton plants (Gossypium hirstum L.) sprayed with formulated neem (Azadiracta indica A. Juss.) extract (3% azadirachtin emulsifiable concentrate). High mortality of larvae was observed on both treated plants and controls. Surviving larvae were transferred to an untreated artificial diet to assess the physiol ...
... An ecofriendly green chemistry method using a natural biopolymer, Gum Kondagogu (GK) for the removal of U (VI) from aqueous, simulated nuclear effluents was studied. The adsorption characteristic of GK towards U (VI) from aqueous solution was studied at varied pH, contact time, adsorbent dose, initial U (VI) concentration and temperature using UV–Visible spectroscopy and ICP-MS. Maximum adsorption ...
... During 1989 and 1990, we conducted field studies to determine effects of the pyrethroid cypermethrin and the organophosphate sulprofos on natural enemy densities and on the efficacy of natural enemies against the cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover. During 1989 in untreated plots, small predators had the greatest impact on the aphid population, aphidopathogenic fungi had the greatest impact in the ...
... Resistance monitoring for Bemisia tabaci field populations to the juvenile hormone mimic, pyriproxyfen, was conducted from 1996 to 2003 in commercial cotton fields in two areas of Israel: the Ayalon Valley (central Israel) and the Carmel Coast (northwestern Israel). Although the use of pyriproxyfen ceased in these areas in 1996-1997 (because of the resistance), resistance levels to pyriproxyfen de ...
... Boll shedding in cotton is thought to depend on the crop growth rate and the demand for plant assimilates by the growing bolls. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that the ratio of boll load (BOLL) and carrying capacity (CA), defined as the maximum boll load, could be used to index the boll shedding fraction for cotton plants with different crop growth rates. Cotton was grown in a gree ...
... The feasibility of marking the adult stage of Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) and Heliothis virescens (F.) by treating Geranium dissectum L. with aqueous solutions of strontium chloride (SrCl2) or rubidium chloride (RbCl) was studied. G. dissectum is a major wild host plant of the F1 larval generation of those pests in the Delta of Mississippi. Strontium chloride was 100% effective in marking the adults ...
Gossypium; cellulose; flowering; genes; hairs; lint cotton; ovules; seed development
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... Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is the most important textile crop worldwide due to its cellulosic mature fibers, which are single‐celled hairs initiated from the cotton ovule epidermis at anthesis. Research to improve cotton fiber yield and quality in recent years has been largely focused on identifying genes regulating fiber cell initiation, elongation and cellulose synthesis. However, manipulating some ...
cotton; Gossypium; transgenic plants; Bacillus thuringiensis; innovation adoption; crop production; commodity prices; international trade; welfare economics; models; United States; China
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... Many studies report that Bt cotton has led to significant yield gains, reduced insecticide use, or both in different countries. With rare exception, these studies examine adoption in one region in isolation from adoption in others. This article summarizes the global impacts of Bt cotton adoption in the United States and China based on results from a three-region model of the world cotton market. I ...
... The overall goal of this research is to reexamine findings of earlier efforts that analyzed the effect of Bt cotton adoption in 1999 with two follow-up surveys conducted in 2000 and 2001. Our survey data on yields and econometric analyses indicate that the adoption of Bt cotton continued to increase output per hectare in 2000 and 2001 and that the yield gains extended to all provinces in our sampl ...
... BACKGROUND: Although most monitoring of pest resistance to widely cultivated transgenic crops producing insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) relies on bioassays, DNA screening for alleles associated with resistance has some advantages, particularly for rare, recessively inherited resistance. In China's Yangtze River Valley, where farmers first planted transgenic cotton producing ...
Marcelo M. Rabelo; João Marcus L. Matos; Oscar F. Santos-Amaya; Josélia C. França; Jaciara Gonçalves; Silvana V. Paula-Moraes; Raul Narciso C. Guedes; Eliseu José G. Pereira
... Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) varieties of soybean and cotton have been widely adopted in South America, but defoliation by the southern armyworm Spodoptera eridania (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) has increased in these crops. This issue may be linked to the low inherent susceptibility of the larvae to some Bt toxins. However, this hypothesis was not yet tested, nor was the potential sublethal effects of ...
... Cropping system diversification, including the in-field establishment of strip crops can improve the effectiveness of natural enemies and enhance biological control of pestiferous herbivores. In China, habitat management such as the in-field establishment of alfalfa strips is used for pest control in cotton. However, their effect on other economically important pests, such as the mirid bug Apolygu ...
... The availability of a simple, reproducible and cost-effective molecular marker is a prerequisite for plant genetic analysis. We have developed a novel promoter-targeted marker, CAAT box- derived polymorphism (CBDP) using the nucleotide sequence of CAAT box of plant promoters. CBDP, like random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), uses single primer in polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for generating ma ...
... Microsatellites found in expressed sequence tags (ESTs) have several advantages in comparison to conventional microsatellites developed from genomic DNA. Advantages of EST-microsatellites include better transferability between the species and lower development cost of primer pairs. However, in many cases the amplified products of genomic DNA are larger than their expected sizes based on ESTs and t ...
... The CRISPR–Cas9 is emerging genome editing tool and very easy and straightforward in operation that has been tested and explored for introduction of new traits in plant systems. Recently, a number of reports have documented utilization of this technology for providing tolerance against viral diseases mediated by begomoviruses. Begomoviruses infect dicot and are transmitted by white flies and cause ...
Anthonomus grandis grandis; Gossypium; agricultural machinery and equipment; cotton; monitoring; pests; pheromone traps; trapping; South America; Texas
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... The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis grandis Boheman) has been eradicated from much of the U.S., but remains an important pest of cotton (Gossypium spp.) in other parts of the Americas. Where the weevil occurs, the pheromone trap is a key tool for population monitoring or detection. Traditional monitoring programs have placed traps in or near the outermost cotton rows where damage by farm equipment ...
Gossypium; activists; breeding; case studies; cotton; cottonseed; crops; exports; floriculture; globalization; markets; politics; rice; seed industry; students; sugarcane; transgenic plants; Costa Rica; Europe; United States
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... Costa Rica has rich ecological resources and has been a steady political force in turbulent Central America. Most recently, it has become a battleground between pro- and anti-genetically modified organism (GMO) political forces. This case study examines the roles of U.S.-based cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) seed companies, anti-GMO activists, and the Costa Rican government officials in this debate ...
Gossypium; toxic substances; toxicity; bioassays; pest resistance; Heliothis virescens; larvae
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... An insect tissue culture bioassay was developed with an established cell line (BCIRL-HV-AM1) of Heliothis virescens (F.). This bioassay substantially reduced the time, material, and experimental error involved in toxicity evaluations compared with larval-feeding studies with artificial diets. LD50's of seven terpenes from the cotton plant (Gossypium spp.) were determined in the tissue culture bioa ...
... Certain biotypes of the Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) complex cause extensive damage and are important pests and virus vectors in agricultural crops throughout the world. Among the most invasive and well studied are the B and Q biotypes. Recent reports in Shandong Province, China, have indicated that the Q biotype was introduced there in ≈ 2005, whereas the B biotype has been ...
... Potassium (K) is an essential macronutrient for plant growth and development. K deficiency seriously affects protein and carbohydrate synthesis in the leaves of plants. The present study was carried out with two cotton genotypes with low K tolerance to investigate the different changes on chemical composition and structure in leaves of K-efficient cotton genotypes under low K stress by using Fouri ...
... The cotton plant suffers from many pests and due to its economic importance, the use of efficient but ecologically friendly pesticides is highly desirable. The insecticide Sumi-Alpha with active compound Esfenvalerate is widely used for cotton treatment in Uzbekistan. This insecticide is considered as moderately hazardous for different organisms of ecosystems, while more collected data and relevan ...
... Cottons from Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are studied to learn whether damage to their fiber structures occurs during opening, cleaning, carding, and open-end spinning. Powder x-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy show that the crystallite size and degree of crystallinity decrease and the primary wall is visibly damaged. ...
... Stand establishment and early growth are important for successful cotton (Gossypium hirstum L.) production, but in comparison with other crops, cotton seedlings develop slowly after emergence. The objectives of this study were to compare and contrast early vigor of diverse cotton genotypes under greenhouse and field conditions. A total of 144 genotypes were grown in a greenhouse and destructively ...
U. M. Shapulatov; Z. T. Buriev; M. Ulloa; S. Saha; E. J. Devor; M. S. Ayubov; T. M. Norov; S. E. Shermatov; A. Abdukarimov; J. N. Jenkins; I. Y. Abdurakhmonov
... Genes for host-plant resistant do exist in cotton (Gossypium spp.) but improvement of cotton cultivars with resistance is difficult due to intensive breeding. Identifying molecular-genetic mechanisms associated with disease resistance can offer a new way to combat a serious threat such as Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum (FOV). Here, we captured and annotated “top-layer” of abundantly and spe ...
... With the increasing use of biomass resources, the recycling or disposal of biomass ash should be given more attention. An idea is put forward in this paper to study the possibility of CO₂ fixation with biomass ash through the bicarbonation reactions of carbonate minerals. Four typical biomass resources, corn stalk, wheat stalk, cotton branch, and poplar, in a rural area of northern China, were sam ...
... Dusky cotton bug Oxycarenus hyalinipennis (Costa) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) has been found to infesting cotton and other plants in Pakistan and some other countries. However, in Pakistan the increasing infestation of O. hyalinipennis was controlled with different insecticides, but some degree of resistance has been reported. Inheritance and cross-resistance of dimethoate resistance selection have not ...
... In the present study, 28 chitinase producing Actinomycetes were isolated from rhizoshperic soil samples of Gossypium sp. (Cotton) growing in Dastan farm, Naroda, Gujarat. Amongst them, eleven of these isolates produced significantly higher levels of chitinase and were further studied quantitatively. Results indicated that SP 24 was found to be the most prominent chitinase producer, giving 2.790 U/ ...
Beta vulgaris; Entisols; Gossypium; Triticum; aquifers; calcite; capillarity; carbonates; cotton; crops; exchangeable sodium; field experimentation; gypsum; irrigation; irrigation water; leaching; permeability; saline water; salinity; salt tolerance; sodicity; sodium adsorption ratio; soil salinity; soil sampling; sugar beet; water quality; well water; wheat; California
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... Representative samples were collected from the surface horizon of an Entisol in field plots that had received applied waters of differing quality over a 5-yr period while cropped with cotton (Gossypium sp.), wheat (Triticum sp.), and sugarbeets (Beta vulgaris L.). Irrigation was either with California Aqueduct water, saline well water, or a 1:1 mixture of the two. The soil samples were analyzed fo ...
... A novel new way to achieve chemical-free defoliation of cotton is discussed. The research found that by severing the phloem tissue on the main stalk, via a girdling operation, the operation stimulated the cotton plant to alter its growth into an early senescence pathway that resulted in the plant shedding its leaves and opening up all its bolls, leaving the plant in the perfect state for machine h ...
Irlon Maciel Ferreira; Lenilson Coutinho Rocha; Sérgio Akinobo Yoshioka; Márcia Nitschke; Alex Haroldo Jeller; Lucas Pizzuti; Mirna Helena Regali Seleghim; André Luiz Meleiro Porto
... Whole mycelia of marine fungal strain Penicillium citrinum CBMAI 1186, both free and immobilized on cotton (Gossypium sp.), fibroin (Bombyx mori) and a local kapok (Ceiba speciosa), catalyzed the chemoselective reduction of chalcones [(E)-3-(4-fluorophenyl)-1-phenylprop-2-en-1-one 3a, (E)-3-(4-bromophenyl)-1-phenylprop-2-en-1-one 3b, (E)-3-(4-methoxyphenyl)-1-phenylprop-2-en-1-one 3c, (E)-3-(4-met ...
... Polyploidization, or whole‐genome duplication, leads to gene expression changes that drive the evolution of many plants and some animals. However, the role of the dosage effect on gene expression changes following genome duplication remains unclear. Here, several Gossypium hirsutum‐Gossypium australe alien chromosome addition lines (ALs) were developed that contained a single (MA) or a pair (DA) o ...
automatic detection; image analysis; classification; lint cotton; texture; Gossypium; data analysis; color; product quality; shape; quality control
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... Automatic classification of foreign fibers in cotton lint using machine vision is still a challenge due to various colors and shapes of the foreign fibers. This paper presents a novel classification method based on multi-class support vector machine (MSVM) which aims at accurate and fast classification of the foreign fibers. Firstly, live images were acquired by a machine vision system and then pr ...
Gossypium; Verticillium dahliae; Verticillium wilt; cotton; crop production; disease control; fecundity; mixed infection; pathotypes; plant pathogenic fungi; soil fungi; spore germination; stems; surveys; vegetative growth; virulence; New South Wales
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... Verticillium wilt (VW) is a major constraint to cotton production in Australia and worldwide. The disease is caused by a soilborne fungus, Verticillium dahliae, a highly virulent pathogen on cotton. Commonly, V. dahliae is designated into two pathotypes: defoliating (D) and non-defoliating (ND), based on induced symptoms. In the previous two survey seasons between 2017 and 2019, stems with suspect ...
... Combining ability analysis and heterosis for cotton fiber quality traits were studied in a set of diallel crosses involving eight cotton (Gossypium sp.) genotypes. Randomized complete block design was used to test 56 F₁ and 8 parents for fiber quality traits; length (Len), strength (Str), micronaire (Mic), uniformity (Unf), elongation (Elg), spinning consistency index (Sci) and short fiber index ( ...
... In many countries, methyl esters of vegetable oils are blended with petroleum diesel and used as a partial substituent to petroleum diesel. In our experimentation, neat cotton seed methyl ester (without blending) was implemented as fuel for a direct injection compression ignition engine. Cotton seed methyl ester cetane number and calorific value are close to petroleum diesel. But the flash point, ...
... Among natural fibers, such as cotton, silk, wool, flax, hemp, etc., cotton is the one that takes up the highest percentage in the textile market. Nevertheless, there are obstacles associated with its cultivation; it is restricted to sub-tropical climates, and it is dependent upon high amounts of water, as well as the use of agrochemicals to ensure good yields. The use of pesticides and other types ...
... This study presents a comparative study of multispectral and RGB (red, green, and blue) sensor-based cotton canopy cover modelling using multi-temporal unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) imagery. Additionally, a canopy cover model using an RGB sensor is proposed that combines an RGB-based vegetation index with morphological closing. The field experiment was established in 2017 and 2018, where the who ...
... The number of cotton plants grown per unit area has recently gained attention due to technology expense, high input, and seed cost. Yield consistency across a series of plant populations is an attractive cost-saving option. Field experiments were conducted to compare biomass accumulation, fiber quality, leaf area index, yield and yield components of cotton planted at various densities (D1, 1.5; D2 ...
... Allotetraploid cotton species (Gossypium) belong to a 1-2 million year old lineage that reunited diploid genomes that diverged from each other 5-10 million years ago. To characterize genome evolution in the diploids and allotetraploids, comparative RFLP mapping was used to construct genetic maps for the allotetraploids (AD genome; n = 26) and diploids (A and D genomes; n = 13). Comparisons among t ...