Cotton Production and Uses: Agronomy, Crop Protection, and Postharvest Technologies

Book Overview

1. World Cotton Production and Consumption: An Overview.- 2. Soil Management and Tillage Practices for Growing Cotton Crop.- 3. Managing Planting Time for Cotton Production.- 4. Sowing Methods for Cotton Production.- 5.Irrigation Scheduling for Cotton Cultivation.- 6. Role of Macro Nutrients in Cotton Production.- 7. Essential Micronutrients for Cotton Production.- 8.Plant Growth Regulators for Cotton Production in Changing Environment.- 9. Weeds Management in Cotton.- 10. Pollination Behavior of Cotton Crop and its Management.- 11. Insect Pests of Cotton and their Management.- 12. Ecological Management of Cotton Insect Pests.- 13. Cotton Diseases and Their Management.- 14.Cotton Diseases and Disorders under Changing Climate.- 16. Cotton Relay Intercropping under Continuous Cotton-Wheat Cropping System.- 17. Cotton-Based Intercropping Systems.- 18. Abiotic Stresses Mediated Changes Morphophysiology of Cotton Plant.- 19. Salinity Tolerance in Cotton.- 20. Heat Stress in Cotton: Responses and Adaptive Mechanisms.- 21. Applications of Crop Modeling in Cotton Production.- 22. Climate Resilient Cotton Production System: A Case Study in Pakistan.- 23. Cotton Ontogeny.- 24. Molecular Breeding of Cotton for Drought Stress Tolerance.- 25. Biotechnology for Cotton Improvement.- 26. Development of Transgenic Cotton for Combating Biotic and Abiotic Stresses.- 27. Production and Processing of Quality Cottonseed.- 28. Quality Aspects of Cotton Lint.- 29. Modern Concepts and Techniques for Better Cotton Production.- 30. Diverse Uses of Cotton: From Products to Byproducts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811514712
• ISBN13: 9789811514715
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 641 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"