Contents
Foreword...........................................................................................................................................vii
Editors................................................................................................................................................ix
List of Contributors............................................................................................................................xi
Chapter 1 Role of Breeding and Biotechnology in Sustainable Cotton Production......................1
Zulqurnain Khan, Zulfiqar Ali and Asif Ali Khan
Chapter 2 Cotton Genetics and Genomics...................................................................................15
Muhammad Umar Iqbal, Sultan Habibullah Khan, Muhammad Salman Mubarik,
Aftab Ahmad, Muhammad Sajjad and Hafiz Muhammad Imran
Chapter 3 Conventional Breeding of Cotton................................................................................29
Farzana Ashraf, Nadia Iqbal, Wajid Nazeer, Zia Ullah Zia, Asif Ali Khan
and Saghir Ahmad
Chapter 4 Molecular Cotton Breeding.........................................................................................47
Zulqurnain Khan, Zulfiqar Ali and Asif Ali Khan
Chapter 5 Gene Mapping in Cotton.............................................................................................69
Muhammad Abu Bakar Saddique, Zulfiqar Ali, Muhammad Ali Sher,
Babar Farid, Furqan Ahmad and Sarmad Frogh Arshad
Chapter 6 Functional Genomics in Cotton...................................................................................87
Furqan Ahmad, Akash Fatima, Plosha Khanum, Shoaib ur Rehman,
Muhammad Abu Bakar Saddique, Mahmood Alam Khan and Zulqurnain Khan
Chapter 7 Cotton Transformation and Regeneration.................................................................101
Ummara Waheed, Sadia Shabir, Fatima Mazhar, Mamoona Rehman,
Hamza Ahmad Qureshi and Nadia Iqbal
Chapter 8 Breeding Cotton for Heat Tolerance..........................................................................113
Muhammad Kashif Riaz Khan, Fang Liu, Baohua Wang, Manzoor Hussain,
Allah Ditta, Zunaira Anwar and Aqsa Ijaz
Chapter 9 Breeding Cotton for Drought Tolerance....................................................................139
Muhammad Mahmood Ahmed, Muhammad Waseem Akram and Zulfiqar Ali
Chapter 10 Breeding Cotton for Salt Tolerance...........................................................................157
Zulfiqar Ali, Muhammad Tehseen Azhar, Muhammad Mahmood Ahmed,
Umar Akram and Abid Hussain
Chapter 11 Breeding Cotton for Cotton Leaf Curl Disease Resistance.......................................171
Judith K. Brown and Zulqurnain Khan
Chapter 12 Breeding Cotton for Insects/Pests Resistance...........................................................199
Hafiza Masooma Naseer Cheema, Asif Ali Khan, Muhammad Aakif Khan,
Muhammad Ans Pervez, Muhammad Zubair Ghouri, Aftab Ahmad
and Sultan Habibullah Khan
Chapter 13 Breeding Cotton for Herbicide Resistance................................................................233
Muhammad Zaffar Iqbal and Shahid Nazir
Chapter 14 Breeding Cotton for Fiber Traits...............................................................................245
Nadia Iqbal, Farzana Ashraf, Ummara Waheed and Saghir Ahmad
Chapter 15 Breeding Cotton for Value Added Traits...................................................................259
Sajid Majeed, Muhammad Salman Mubarik, Muhammad Umar Iqbal,
Xiongming Du and Muhammad Tehseen Azhar
Chapter 16 Genetically Modified Cotton: Boom or Dust............................................................271
Iqrar Ahmad Rana, Allah Bakhsh, Shakhnozakhon Tillaboeva, Qandeel-e-Arsh,
Shang Haihong and Muhammad Tehseen Azhar
Chapter 17 Cotton Seed System..................................................................................................291
Fawad Salman Shah, Muhammad Aslam Bhatti, Asif Ali Khan,
Irfan Ahmad Baig, Muhammad Hammad Nadeem Tahir, Furqan Ahmad
and Muhammad Amir Bakhtavar
Chapter 18 Cotton Breeding and Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Opportunities...................311
Mubashir Mehdi, Muhammad Haseeb Raza and Muhammad Talha Azeem
Chapter 19 Breeding Cotton for International Trade...................................................................323
Khalid Abdullah and Zahid Khan
Index .......................................................................................................................................339