Cotton

"Cotton, 2nd edition, edited by David D. Fang and Richard G. Percy, is a long awaited, much needed comprehensive update on the science of cotton. This book epitomizes the thorough coverage of an Agronomy Monograph. Readers will find essential coverage of the many scientific advancements in the field, from fiber handling to the transgenic cotton revolution. This amazing and versatile crop, cultivated for more than 7000 years, is one of the most powerful stories in agricultural science. More than 50 experts who contributed to this volume represent the leading edge of this exciting story." Foreword vii

Preface ix

Contributors xi

Cotton as a World Crop: Origin, History, and Current Status 1
Joshua A. Lee and David D. Fang

Taxonomy and Evolution of the Cotton Genus, Gossypium 25
Jonathan F. Wendel and Corrinne E. Grover

Germplasm Resources Collection and Management 45
James Frelichowski and Richard Percy

Anatomy and Morphology of Cultivated Cottons 77
Jack R. Mauney

Fiber Biology 97
Hee Jin Kim

Cytology and Cytogenetics 129
Tianzhen Zhang and John E. Endrizzi

Qualitative Genetics and Utilization of Mutants 155
Richard Percy, Bralie Hendon, Efrem Bechere, and Dick Auld

Quantitative Genetics 187
B. Todd Campbell and Gerald O. Myers

Conventional Cotton Breeding 205
Fred Bourland and Gerald O. Myers

Transgenic Cotton Breeding 229
Jinfa Zhang

Molecular Breeding 255
David D. Fang

Genome Sequenncing 289
Maojun Wang, Daojun Yuan, and Xianlong Zhang

Role of Bioinformatic Tools and Databases in Cotton Research 303
Jing Yu and Dorrie Main

Physiology 339
John L. Snider and Derrick M. Oosterhuis

Climate and Its Interaction with Cotton Morphology 401
Warren Conaty, Rose Brodrick, James Mahan, and Paxton Payton

Crop Growing Practices 419
Philip J. Bauer

Remote Sensing for Cotton Farming 439
Yanbo Huang and Steven J. Thomson

Diseases 465
Craig S. Rothrock, Jason E. Woodward, and Robert C. Kemerait, Jr.

Cotton Insect Pest Management 509
Randall G. Luttrell, Tina Gray Teague, and Michael J. Brewer

Cotton Nematodes 547
David B. Weaver

Harvesting 571
John D. Wanjura, Edward M. Barnes, Mark S. Kelley, and Randal K. Boman

Ginning 609
Ed Hughs and Greg Holt

Fiber to Fabric 665
Brendan Kelly, Noureddine Abidi, Dean Ethridge, and Eric F. Hequet

Seed 745
Michael K. Dowd

Marketing and Economics 783
Gary M. Adams

David Fang is Supervisory Research Geneticist and Research Leader of Cotton Fiber Bioscience Research Unit, USDA-ARS at New Orleans, LA. He leads a group to study cotton fiber biology using biochemical, genetic, molecular, and genomic methods. His research focuses on mapping important qualitative and quantitative traits of cotton using DNA markers and implementing them in practical breeding.
He also uses mutants to study ÿ ber development, especially fiber elongation and maturation. He has served the cottonresearch community as chair of Structural Genomics Workgroup of the International Cotton Genome Initiative and as a member of the Cotton Marker Database Advisory Committee.

Richard Percy is Research Leader for the Crop Germplasm Research Unit of the USDA-ARS in College Station, TX, whose tasks include maintenance of the national collection for Gossypium germplasm, characterization and evaluation of the genetic diversity of the cotton collection, and development of improved germplasm.
His interests include use of marker technologies to explore and deÿ ne the structure of genetic diversity within the Gossypium genus, phenotypic characterization and evaluation of the germplasm collection for agronomically important traits, and mapping and sequencing commercial tetraploid cotton. Dr. Percy has served as chair of the Cotton Crop Germplasm Committee, chair of the International Cotton Genome Initiative, and as a member of the CottonGen database committee.