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agronomy; climate; corn; cotton; cultivars; grain yield; irrigation; protein content; rice; soy protein; soybeans; temperature; tofu; wheat; Central European region; Germany
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... Soybean is one of the five crops that dominate global agriculture, along with maize, wheat, cotton and rice. In Europe, soybean still plays a minor role and is cultivated mainly in the South and East. Very little is known about the potential for soybean in higher latitudes with relatively cool conditions. To investigate the agronomic potential and limitations of soybean for feed (high grain yield) ...
Muhammad Naeem Akhtar; Tanveer Ul-Haq; Fiaz Ahmad; Muhammad Imran; Wazir Ahmed; Abdul Ghaffar; Muhammad Shahid; Muhammad Hamzah Saleem; Huda Alshaya; Mohammad K. Okla; Shafaqat Ali
agronomy; cotton; cultivars; environmental sustainability; irrigation; irrigation water; nitrogen; nutrient use efficiency; nutrition; photosynthesis; potassium; soil water; stomatal conductance; water content; water use efficiency
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... Low nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE) is a serious issue for cotton production and environmental sustainability in arid climates. A pot study was conducted to evaluate the effect of K nutrition on NUE and performance of low- and high-K-efficiency cotton cultivars under two moisture regimes. Treatments included two soil moisture levels—i.e., normal irrigation, 100% available water content (AWC); reduce ...
... Genetically‐modified crops expressing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) proteins have been widely cultivated, permitting an effective non‐chemical control of major agricultural pests. While their establishment can enable an area‐wide suppression of polyphagous herbivores, no information is available on the impact of Bt crop abandonment in entire landscape matrices. Here, we detail a resurgence of the co ...
... Chromium-VI (Cr (VI)) is a toxic metal pollutant to both plants and animals. In this study, we cultured two transgenic cotton cultivars (J208 (herbicide-resistant), Z905 (insect-resistant)) and their hybrid line (ZD14) in hydroponic media using 0, 10, 50, 100 µM Cr/L for 7 days. Leaf-related growth parameters such as leaf length and width considerably declined. Decrease in leaves’ fresh biomass wa ...
... Gossypium hirsutum is an important source of natural textile fibers. Gossypol, which is a sesquiterpenoid compound mainly existing in the cotton pigment glands, can facilitate resistance to the stress from diseases and pests. The level of gossypol in the cotton is positively correlated to the quantity of pigment glands. However, the underlying regulatory mechanisms of gossypol synthesis and gland ...
... Field studies were conducted in Alabama in 2016 and 2017 to determine the effect of postemergence applications of glufosinate alone and glufosinate applied with S-metolachlor, using two different nozzle types, on LibertyLink®, XtendFlex®, and WideStrike® cotton growth and yield. Two applications of glufosinate at 0.6 kg ha–¹, and glufosinate with S-metolachlor at 1.39 kg ha–¹ were applied to each ...
Devendra Prasad Chalise; John L. Snider; Lavesta C. Hand; Phillip Roberts; George Vellidis; Alessandro Ermanis; Guy D. Collins; Lorena N. Lacerda; Yafit Cohen; Amrit Pokhrel; Ved Parkash; Joshua Mark Lee
... Drought negatively affects cotton growth and yield, whereas excessive irrigation can limit yield through excessive vegetative growth and poor fruit retention. Mepiquat chloride (MC) application limits plant height, improves fruit retention and hastens maturity in responsive cultivars. Thus, the objective of this study was to address the effects of cultivar, irrigation, and MC strategy on cotton gr ...
chlorophyll; cotton; cultivars; drought tolerance; hydroponics; osmotic stress; photosynthates; proline; root growth; seedling growth; seedlings; water shortages; water stress
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... BACKGROUND: Cotton production is adversely effected by drought stress. It is exposed to drought stress at various critical growth stages grown under a water scarcity environment. Roots are the sensors of plants; they detect osmotic stress under drought stress and play an important role in plant drought tolerance mechanisms. The seedling stage is very sensitive to drought stress, and it needed to e ...
... BACKGROUND: Verticillium wilt of cotton is a serious disease caused by the infection of soil borne fungus Verticillium dahliae Kleb, and the infection mechanisms may involve the regulation of phytohormone ethylene. The precursor of ethylene biosynthesis is 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC), whose biosynthesis in vivo depends on activation of ACC synthase (ACS). Here, we investigated how ...
... Cotton, as the fifth‐largest oilseed crop, often faces the coupling stress of heat and drought. Still, the effects of combined stress on cottonseed oil synthesis and its closely related carbon metabolism are poorly investigated. To this end, experiments were conducted with two cultivars (Sumian 15 and PHY370WR) under two temperature regimes: ambient temperature (AT) and elevated temperature (ET, w ...
... The root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita (Mi) is the most important pathogen of cotton in the southeastern United States. Cotton cultivars with resistance to this nematode are commercially available; however, they have not been widely adopted by growers in fields infested with M. incognita. The objective of this study was to determine whether rotations of Mi-resistant (cv. PHY 487 WFR) and sus ...
Colletotrichum; Passiflora edulis; anthracnose; appressoria; botanical gardens; calmodulin; conidia; cotton; cultivars; culture media; disease diagnosis; fruit consumption; fruit quality; fungi; humidity; internal transcribed spacers; juices; leaves; mycelium; passion fruits; pathogenicity; pathogens; phylogeny; raw fruit; ribosomal DNA; tubulin; China
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... Passion fruit (Passiflora edulis Sims) is an important tropical and subtropical species with high commercial value due to its wide use in juice production and fresh fruit consumption. A disease affecting the leaves was observed on passion fruit vines in the South Subtropical Botanical Garden in Zhanjiang City in April and September 2020 with an incidence of 30 to 60%. Affected leaves usually devel ...
Mohan Venkata Siva Prasad Bandi; S. L. Bhattiprolu; V. Prasanna Kumari; V. Manoj Kumar; V. Divyamani; A. K. Patibanda; K. Jayalalitha; D. V. Sai Ram Kumar
... Target spot with unusual symptoms was observed in upland cotton at the Regional Agricultural Research Station, Lam, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, in 2017. Symptoms appeared about 60 to 65 days after planting with minute pinhead-sized light orange to brick red spots that gradually expanded as circular to oval or irregular concentric spots and finally became target spots with a yellow halo. These s ...
... Over 300 trunk, branch, and stem samples with vascular discoloration, necrotic wood, and shoot death were collected from olive (Olea europaea) orchards in Lecce, Brindisi, Bari, and Foggia provinces (Apulia region, Italy) from October to May from 2013 to 2019. Small chips of symptomatic wood samples were surface sterilized (5% NaOCl, 3 min; 70% ethanol, 30 s), rinsed (sterile distilled water, ×3), ...
Yi Zhu; Gregory N. Thyssen; Abdelraheem Abdelraheem; Zonghua Teng; David D. Fang; Johnie N. Jenkins; Jack C. McCarty; Tom Wedegaertner; Kater Hake; Jinfa Zhang
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum; Fusarium wilt; Gossypium hirsutum; chromosomes; cotton; cultivars; genes; genome-wide association study; genomics; meta-analysis; phenotype
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... KEY MESSAGE: A major QTL conferring resistance to Fusarium wilt race 4 in a narrow region of chromosome D02 was identified in a MAGIC population of 550 RILs of Upland cotton. Numerous studies have been conducted to investigate the genetic basis of Fusarium wilt (FW, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum, FOV) resistance using bi-parental and association mapping populations in cotton. In ...
... Crop wild relatives are an important reservoir of natural biodiversity. However, incorporating wild genetic diversity into breeding programs is often hampered by reproductive barriers and a lack of accurate genomic information. We assembled a high-quality, accurately centromere-anchored genome of Gossypium anomalum, a stress-tolerant wild cotton species. We provided a strategy to discover and tran ...
Farrukh Azeem; Roshan Zameer; Muhammad Abdul Rehman Rashid; Ijaz Rasul; Sami Ul-Allah; Muhammad Hussnain Siddique; Sajid Fiaz; Ali Raza; Afifa Younas; Asima Rasool; Muhammad Amjad Ali; Sultana Anwar; Manzer H. Siddiqui
... Potassium (K⁺) is an important macro-nutrient for plants, which comprises almost 10% of plant's dry mass. It plays a crucial role in the growth of plants as well as other important processes related to metabolism and stress tolerance. Plants have a complex and well-organized potassium distribution system (channels and transporters). Cotton is the most important economic crop, which is the primary ...
... Terpenoids are widely distributed in plants and play important roles in the regulation of plant growth and development and in the interactions between plants and both the environment and other organisms. However, terpene synthase (TPS) genes have not been systematically investigated in the tetraploid Gossypium hirsutum. In this study, whole genome identification and characterization of the TPS fam ...
... Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is the world’s most essential fiber-producing crop. The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is the largest cotton-growing region on our planet; superior local environments, unique cultivation management measures, and excellent cotton cultivars have ensured its irreplaceable role. However, the origin of the higher yield production and elite fiber quality observed ...
DNA; Gossypium; cotton; cultivars; field crops; genes; germplasm; heterosis; horticulture; males; molecular biology; plant stress; plantlets; rootstocks; scions; stress tolerance; survival rate; sustainable development; temperature; water use efficiency
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... Grafting is a classical technique to increase plant stress resistance and yield in horticultural crops. This review takes cotton (Gossypium spp.) as an example to summarize the application of grafting in sustainable development for the following subjects: (1) cotton production, such as improving stress tolerance, increasing nutrient and water use efficiency, and cultivating cotton perennially for ...
... Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in diverse biological processes. However, these functions have not been assessed in Verticillium dahliae, a soil-borne fungal pathogen that causes devastating wilt diseases in many crops. The discovery and identity of novel lncRNAs and their association with virulence may contribute to an increased understanding of the regulation of virulence in ...
... Key management recommendations for cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) management require estimates of the timing of crop phenology. Most commonly growing day degree (DD) (thermal time) approaches are used. Currently, across many cotton production regions, there is no consistent approach to predicting first square and flower timing. Day degree approaches vary considerably, with base thresholds differen ...
air temperature; ambient temperature; byproducts; cotton; cottonseed; cultivars; drought; essential amino acids; heat tolerance; lipid content; night temperature; nutritive value; protein content; ruminants; seed yield; soil; unsaturated fatty acids; vegetable oil; water content
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... As the main byproduct of cotton production, cottonseed yields edible vegetable oil, ruminant feed, and industrial products. We evaluated the individual and interactive effects of elevated air temperature and soil drought on cottonseed yield and nutritional quality using two cotton cultivars, Sumian 15 (heat-susceptible) and PHY370WR (heat-tolerant). The experiment was conducted under three levels ...
... Nitrogen (N) is one of the most absorbed and exported nutrients by cotton plants (Gossypium hirsutum L.), but excessive rates can result in excessive growth and reduce fiber yield and quality. Combinations of high N rates and high plant density reduced yields, especially in locations where yield is higher than 2000 kg ha⁻¹ of fiber. The effect on fiber quality (mainly micronaire and fiber strength ...
... Primary and lateral roots are the main components of the root system in cotton, and their development and lifespan are critical for the uptake of water and nutrients (e.g., nitrogen). However, the responses of the daily growth dynamics and lifespan of cotton roots to low nitrogen are poorly understood. In this study of the whole growth period of cotton plants, two cotton cultivars (K836 and K837) ...
... BACKGROUND: Upland Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) has few cotton varieties suitable for mechanical harvesting. The plant height of the cultivar is one of the key features that need to modify. Hence, this study was planned to locate the QTL for plant height in a ⁶⁰Co γ treated upland cotton semi-dwarf mutant Ari1327. RESULTS: Interestingly, bulk segregant analysis (BSA) and genotyping by sequencing ...
... Cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD), caused by a geminivirus complex, is the most serious disease of upland cotton in northwest India and Pakistan. It results in substantial losses in cotton yield and fibre quality. Due to continuous appearance of new viral strains, all the established CLCuD resistant stocks, extant and obsolete cultivars of upland cotton have become susceptible. Therefore, it became ...
... Cotton is the fifth-largest oil crop in the world. A high kernel oil content (KOC) and high stability are important cottonseed attributes for food security. In this study, the phenotype of KOC and the genotype-by-environment interaction factors were collectively dissected using 250 recombinant inbred lines, their parental cultivars sGK156 and 901-001, and CCRI70 across multi-environments. ANOVA an ...
Fernando dos Santos Araújo; Nair Helena Castro Arriel; Everaldo Paulo de Medeiros; Liziane Maria de Lima; Mayara Andrade de Souza; Alberício Pereira de Andrade; Riselane de Lucena Alcântara Bruno
Bayesian theory; Gossypium hirsutum; cotton; cultivars; evolution; gene flow; gene pool; genetic distance; genetic variation; germplasm; germplasm conservation; high volume instruments; micronaire; population structure; Brazil
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... The remaining populations of perennial cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L. r. marie-galante Hutch.) that occur in northeastern Brazil are part of the primary gene pool for the creation of modern upland cotton cultivars. Therefore, we present fiber technological properties, genetic diversity and population structure analysis of four populations of G. hirsutum L. r. marie-galante from Paraíba state in Bra ...
... The ongoing rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration ([CO₂]) has spurred the development of several experimental approaches for studying the effects of elevated [CO₂] on crop plants. Some experimental designs enriched [CO₂] only during the daytime hours and lacked [CO₂] enrichment at night. Previous reports indicate that [CO₂] enrichment at night can result in increased plant leaf area and ...
... Macrophomina phaseolina is a soil-borne fungal pathogen infecting many important crop plants. The fungus, which can survive on crop debris for a long period of time, causes charcoal rot disease by secreting a diverse array of cell-wall degrading enzymes and toxins. M. phaseolina thrives during periods of high temperatures and arid conditions, as typically occur in Israel and other countries with a ...
Caio Felipe de Barros Souza; Rafael Galbieri; Jean-Louis Belot; Bárbara França Negri; Fabiano José Perina; Juvenil Enrique Cares; Regina Maria Dechechi Gomes Carneiro
... Meloidogyne incognita is the root-knot nematode (RKN) species globally known to infect cotton plants, and the resistant cultivar IMA 5801B2RF has recently been released in Brazil for its control. In 2019, the first infection by M. enterolobii on resistant cotton was reported in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. In 2021, in our previous survey, this nematode species was detected again in Brazil in the mu ...
agriculture; commercialization; corn; cotton; cultivars; data quality; electronics; labor; models; rice; seed industry; soybeans; wheat; China
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... A crop variety test is an important way to evaluate the high yield, adaptability, and resistance of potential crop varieties, and it is the cornerstone of the commercialization of new crop varieties. In China, variety tests are performed on five major crops (rice, wheat, maize, cotton, and soybean) by national or provincial agricultural departments every year. However, a large-scale, high-throughp ...
Gossypium hirsutum; cotton; cultivars; genotype; genotype-environment interaction; heritability; China
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... Multi‐environment trials are routinely conducted around the world to select superior cultivars; the numbers of replicates and locations remains insufficiently studied despite their effects on trial efficiency and cost. The objective of the present study was to compensate for the mentioned lack by dealing with the specific case of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) in arid conditions of China and by es ...
... On a P-poor, calcareous soil, three upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) cultivars (ST 402, ST 405, Zeta 2) were tested for 2years under three P rates (0, 13.1, 26.2kgPha−1). Leaf traits (SPAD values; specific leaf area, SLA; carbon isotope discrimination, Δ; 15 N natural abundance, δ15 N) and elements (N, P, K, C, Na, Zn) along with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) colonisation wer ...
... Environment and crop management can play an important role in determining upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) fiber quality. An important quality parameter is fiber micronaire, which is an indirect measure of fiber linear density (fineness) and maturity, and it is affected by crop supply and partitioning of assimilates to cotton fruit. High micronaire occurs when there is an excess of assimilate ...
... High-temperature stress reduces the endotoxin expression of the insecticidal gene (Cry1Ac) in transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton and affects nitrogen metabolism. However, its effects on Cry1Ac endotoxin expression after high-temperature stress termination remain unclear. In order to investigate the effect of high-temperature stress on the expression of insecticidal proteins in Bt cotton ...
Mauricio Ulloa; Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov; Robert Hutmacher; TariLee Schramm; Shukhrat Shermatov; Zabardast Buriev; Philip Roberts; Margaret L. Ellis; Paxton Payton
... Over the past 18 yr, Fusarium wilt race 4 (FOV4) has affected cotton (Gossypium spp.) production in the San Joaquin Valley of California, and more recently this pathogen was formally identified in 2017 in the El Paso, TX, region and in 2019 in New Mexico. The primary purpose for the germplasm release is to provide cotton breeders with needed alternative sources for continuing to improve FOV4 resis ...
... Organic cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) production in the United States is steadily growing because of increased consumer demand, market premium prices, and regulatory shifts. As organic production expands in the United States, adventitious presence of genetically engineered (GE) traits caused by either pollen‐ or seed‐mediated gene flow from nonorganically grown sources of cotton raises concerns a ...
... Cotton is not only a raw material for the textile industry, but also an important strategic material. However, traditional breeding methods have narrowed the genetic diversity of current cotton cultivars. Abundant germplasm resources is a solid foundation for breeding, the use of chemical mutagenesis to create abundant mutation is of great significance to cotton breeding. This study used ethyl met ...
agronomy; cotton; cultivars; lateral roots; night temperature; root anatomy; root growth; seedlings; surface area; tap roots; vigor
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... Root morphology and anatomy are important plant traits that could potentially influence seedling vigour, resource acquisition and susceptibility to early‐season stress. Therefore, the objective of the current experiment was to evaluate the effects of cultivar and growth temperature on seedling root growth and anatomical characteristics in cotton. To address this objective, experiments were conduct ...
Gossypium hirsutum; cotton; cultivars; drought; fiber quality; gas exchange; germplasm; osmotolerance; photosynthesis; phytoremediation; potassium; salinity; salt stress; salt tolerance; sap; stomatal conductance; xylem
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... Drought and salinity are considered two major abiotic stresses that diminish cotton production worldwide. Studying common morphological and physiological responses in cotton cultivars may help plant biologists to develop and apply standard screening criteria for either of these stresses and for their combination. Therefore, this research aimed to assess the suitability of several physiological par ...
carbon; cotton; cottonseed; cottonseed oil; cultivars; diacylglycerol acyltransferase; drought; drought tolerance; glutamate-ammonia ligase; glutamic acid; lipid content; phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase; plant nitrogen content; protein content; protein synthesis; seeds; soil; water content; water stress
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... In cotton production, drought is particularly prominent in the flowering and boll formation stage, which significantly affects the cottonseed yield and quality. As the two main storage products in cottonseed kernel, the formation of oil and protein will be affected inescapably under soil drought. Still, the effects of soil drought on the synthesis of cottonseed oil and protein are poorly investiga ...
... We examined the fitness costs of resistance to transgenic Cry1A.105+Cry2Ab2 Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) maize in the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, a globally invasive pest species. Using Bt-resistant and -susceptible populations of similar genetic backgrounds, we compared insect life-history traits and population growth rates on the foliage of Bt or non-Bt cultivars of maize, soybean, and ...
agriculture; bark; cotton; cultivars; equipment; friction; models; response surface methodology; water content; China
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... The friction characteristic parameters of cotton stalks are important basic physical parameters required to establish the crushing mechanics model and study the separation machinery of film residue mixtures. In this paper, the friction characteristics of cotton stalks were studied using response surface methodology, and the influence of the variation in contact materials, sampling location, and mo ...
... The population of crop seedlings is important for breeders and growers to evaluate the emergence rate of different cultivars and the necessity of replanting, but manual counting of plant seedlings is time-consuming and tedious. Building upon our prior work, we advanced the cotton seedling tracking method by incorporating a one-stage object detection deep neural network and optical flow to improve ...
... Cotton aphid (Aphis gossypii Glover) is regarded as one of the most harmful insect pests for cotton production. They are usually capable of causing severe yield loss through sucking plant sap, secreting honeydew and transmitting plant viral diseases. However, the molecular mechanism of the interaction between cotton and cotton aphids remains unclear currently. Therefore, the RNA-Seq study of cotto ...
... DNA fingerprinting and genetic diversity analysis of 79 early-maturing upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) cultivars were performed using Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) molecular markers. Out of 126 pairs of SSR primers, we selected 71 pairs that gave good polymorphisms and clear bands, had good stability, and showed even distribution on the cotton chromosomes, and 142 polymorphic genotypes were a ...
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum; Fusarium wilt; Gossypium; analysis of variance; cotton; cultivars; greenhouses; mortality; New Mexico; Texas
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... Field evaluation of cotton for resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum Race 4 (FOV4) is important in breeding. In this study, an 8 × 8 Latin square design was arranged in two FOV4‐infested fields each with two trials to evaluate eight cotton (Gossypium hirstum) cultivars based on mortality rate (MR) and root vascular staining (RVS). For a comparison, two trials of the same design were ...
... Palmer amaranth has developed resistance to at least seven herbicide sites of action in the Cotton Belt of the United States, leaving producers with fewer options to manage this weed. Previous research with corn and newly commercially released soybean systems have found the use of 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD)-inhibiting herbicides such as isoxaflutole (IFT) to be effective at managin ...