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  1. Plant tissue culture has emerged as a tool for improving cotton propagation and genetics, but recalcitrance nature of cotton makes it difficult to develop in vitro regeneration. Cotton's recalcitrance is influ...

    Authors: Gözde Yalçın Özkat, Muhammad Aasim, Allah Bakhsh, Seyid Amjad Ali and Sebahattin Özcan
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:19
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  2. GOSSYM is a mechanistic, process-based cotton model that can simulate cotton crop growth and development, yield, and fiber quality. Its fiber quality module was developed based on controlled experiments explic...

    Authors: Sahila Beegum, Muhammad Adeel Hassan, Krishna N. Reddy, Vangimalla Reddy and Kambham Raja Reddy
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:18
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  3. Cotton is an essential agricultural commodity, but its global yield is greatly affected by climate change, which poses a serious threat to the agriculture sector. This review aims to provide an overview of the...

    Authors: Muhammad Aamir Khan, Saeed Anwar, Mubashir Abbas, Muhammad Aneeq, Fokke de Jong, Muhammad Ayaz, Yunxiao Wei and Rui Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:17
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  4. Unravelling the relationship between trichome density and resistance to jassids in upland cotton, nine parental lines, viz. MCU 5, CO 14, CO 17, TCH 1828, KC 2, KC 3, GISV 323, GTHV 15–34, and RHC 1409 were obtai...

    Authors: Selvaraj Subhashini, Krishnan Keerthivarman, Sivakami Rajeswari, N Premalatha, T Kalaimagal, M Muthuswami and P Jeyakumar
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:15
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  5. Zinc (Zn), being the most deficient micronutrient, can largely limit plant growth and development on alkaline calcareous soil. Crop species and varieties within species differently require Zn for optimum produ...

    Authors: M. Ashraf, F. Qamar, M. Mehran, S. Masood, S. M. Shahzad, M. S. Javed and M. T. Azhar
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:14
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  7. Cotton crop is infested by numerous arthropod pests from sowing to harvesting, causing substantial direct and indirect yield losses. Knowledge of seasonal population trends and the relative occurrence of pests...

    Authors: V. S. Nagrare, Bhausaheb Naikwadi, Babasaheb B. Fand, V. Chinna Babu Naik, Prabhulinga Tenguri, Nandini Gokte-Narkhedkar and V. N. Waghmare
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:12
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  8. Transgenic research in crops involves using genetic engineering techniques to introduce specific genes of interest from other organisms, or even entirely new genes into plant genomes to create crops with desir...

    Authors: Rishi Kumar, V. S. Nagrare, Vivek Shah, Satnam Singh, Suneet Pandher, Satpal Singh, S. K. Verma, Debashis Paul, Pankaj Rathore, Anoop Kumar Shukla, Mithlesh Kumar Singh, Sharad Saurabh, Harish Kumar, Rupinderjeet Kaur, Pradhyumna Kumar Singh, V. N. Waghmare…
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:11
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  9. Soil available phosphorus (AP) deficiency significantly limits cotton production, particularly in arid and saline-alkaline regions. Screening cotton cultivars for low phosphorus (P) tolerance is crucial for th...

    Authors: Miao Sun, Helin Dong, Huimin Han, Weina Feng, Jingjing Shao, Feichao Huo, Pengcheng Li and Cangsong Zheng
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:10
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  10. The pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella, PBW) is a major cotton pest, causing economic losses by damaging seeds and fiber. Cotton growers typically use systemic and broad-spectrum insecticides for its managem...

    Authors: Snehal Thavkar, Shivaji Thube, Pramod Panchbhai, Nandkishor Lavhe, Tinni Pillai, Vivek Shah, Vrushali Deshmukh, Thavaprakasa R. Pandian, Babasaheb Fand, Prabhulinga Tenguri, Akash Nikoshe, Mhatre Priyank, Gajanan Behere and Yenumula Prasad
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:8
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  11. Cotton, a crucial commercial fibre crop, depends heavily on seed-associated characteristics like germination rate, vigour, and resistance to post-harvest deterioration for both production and lint quality. Ser...

    Authors: Preethi Mylsamy, Eevera Tamilmani, Rajanbabu Venugopal, Senthilkumar Murugaiyan and Umarani Ranganathan
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:7
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  12. Cotton is an important cash crop in China and a key component of the global textile market. Verticillium wilt is a major factor affecting cotton yield. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers and phenotyp...

    Authors: Muhammad Ayyaz, Zewei Chang, Shugen Ding, Peng Han, Lin Xu, Abudurezike Abudukeyoumu, Irfan Ali Siddho, Zhibo Li, Hairong Lin, Jianwei Xu, Yuanlong Wu and Xinhui Nie
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:9
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  13. Cotton is one of the most important commercial crops after food crops, especially in countries like India, where it’s grown extensively under rainfed conditions. Because of its usage in multiple industries, su...

    Authors: M. N. Thimmegowda, M. H. Manjunatha, H. Lingaraj, D. V. Soumya, R. Jayaramaiah, G. S. Sathisha and L. Nagesha
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:6
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  14. Verticillium wilt, caused by the infamous pathogen Verticillium dahliae, presents a primary constraint on cotton cultivation worldwide. The complexity of disease resistance in cotton and the largely unexplored in...

    Authors: Yalin Zhang, Lihong Zhao, Dongpo Li, Ziming Li, Hongjie Feng, Zili Feng, Feng Wei, Jinglong Zhou, Zhiying Ma, Jun Yang and Heqin Zhu
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:5
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  15. Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is one of the most important global crops that supports the textile industry and provides a living for millions of farmers. The constantly increasing demand needs a significant rise...

    Authors: Vijay Sheri, Harikrishnan Mohan, Phanikanth Jogam, Anshu Alok, Gulab Khan Rohela and Baohong Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:4
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  16. Polygalacturonase inhibiting proteins (PGIPs) play a pivotal role in plant defense against plant pathogens by inhibiting polygalacturonase (PG), an enzyme produced by pathogens to degrade plant cell wall pecti...

    Authors: Sneha Murmu, Mayank Rashmi, Dipak T. Nagrale, Tejasman Kour, Mahender Kumar Singh, Anurag Chaurasia, Santosh Kumar Behera, Raja Shankar, Rajiv Ranjan, Girish Kumar Jha, Shailesh P. Gawande, Neelakanth S. Hiremani, Y. G. Prasad and Sunil Kumar
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:3
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  17. Machine picking in cotton is an emerging practice in India, to solve the problems of labour shortages and production costs increasing. Cotton production has been declining in recent years; however, the high de...

    Authors: Sankar Lakshmanan, Selvaraj Somasundaram, Silambiah Shri Rangasami, Pokkharu Anantharaju, Dhashnamurthi Vijayalakshmi, Thiruvengadam Ragavan and Paramasivam Dhamodharan
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:2
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  18. Zonal application maps are designed to represent field variability using key variables that can be translated into tailored management practices. For cotton, zonal maps for crop growth regulator (CGR) applicat...

    Authors: Maria C. da S. Andrea, Cristiano F. de Oliveira, Fabrícia C. M. Mota, Rafael C. dos Santos, Edilson F. Rodrigues Junior, Lucas M. Bianchi, Rodrigo S. de Oliveira, Caio M. de Gouveia, Victor G. S. Barbosa and Marco A. Bispo E Silva
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2025 8:1
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  19. Aphis gossypii (Hemiptera: Aphididae) is a worldwide polyphagous phloem-feeding agricultural pest, and it can produce offspring by sexual or asexual reproduction. Compared with dozens of generations by parthenoge...

    Authors: Jingli Lü, Liuyu Wang, Kaixin Zhang, Dongyang Li, Mengxue Gao, Lixiang Guo, Zhijuan Tang, Xueke Gao, Xiangzhen Zhu, Li Wang, Jichao Ji, Junyu Luo and Jinjie Cui
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:38
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  21. Weed infestation in cotton has been reported to offer severe competition and cause yield reduction to a large extent. Weeding via cultural practices is time consuming, tedious, and expensive due to long durati...

    Authors: Devi Priyanka, Singh Karmal, Sewhag Meena and Kumar Sushil
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:35
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  22. The pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders), is a devastating global pest of cotton that has caused substantial economic damage to Bt Bollgard-II® cotton plants in recent years due to the evolution of ...

    Authors: Suresh R. Jambagi, M. Mohan, K. Muralimohan, D. N. Kambrekar and T. Venkatesan
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:36
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  24. Cotton, an important industrial crop cultivated in more than 70 countries, plays a major role in the livelihood of millions of farmers and industrialists. Cotton is mainly grown for its fiber, an economic comp...

    Authors: Kari Baghyalakshmi, Rajendran Ariyapalayam Priyanka, Govindaraj Sarathapriya, Selvaraj Ramchander and Arkalgud Hiriyannaiah Prakash
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:33
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  25. The situation of global warming imparts negative impacts on crop growth and development. Cotton is the most important fiber crop around the globe. However, frequent drought episodes pose serious threats to cot...

    Authors: Iram Sharif, Saba Aleem, Jamshaid Ali Junaid, Zulfiqar Ali, Muqadas Aleem, Rahil Shahzad, Jehanzeb Farooq, Muhammad Imran Khan, Waheed Arshad and Farrukh Ellahi
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:32
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  26. Bt technology has played significant role in controlling bollworms and increasing cotton yield in earlier days of its introduction, a subsequent decline in yield became apparent over time. This decline may be ...

    Authors: Rahil Shahzad, Shakra Jamil, Urooj Fatima Chaudhry, Sajid Ur Rahman and Muhammad Zaffar Iqbal
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:31
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  27. Cotton plays a crucial role in shaping Indian economy and rural livelihoods. The cotton crop is prone to numerous insect pests, necessitating insecticidal application, which increases production costs. The adv...

    Authors: Selvarani Nagaraj, Ravikesavan Rajasekaran, Jayamani Palaniappan, Selvakumar Rangasamy, Chitra Narayanasamy and Manikanda Booapathi Narayanan
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:30
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  28. Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner (Bt) cotton was widely grown in China from 1997. Since then, it has resulted in many misunderstandings and concerns about Bt cotton. However, extensive research and practical exper...

    Authors: Yanjun Zhang and Hezhong Dong
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:29
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  29. Lessons learned from past experiences push for an alternate way of crop production. In India, adopting high density planting system (HDPS) to boost cotton yield is becoming a growing trend. HDPS has recently b...

    Authors: Sekar Manibharathi, Selvaraj Somasundaram, Panneerselvam Parasuraman, Alagesan Subramanian, Veerasamy Ravichandran and Narayanan Manikanda Boopathi
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:28
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  30. Understanding the mechanism of male sterility is crucial for producing hybrid seeds and developing sterile germplasm resources. However, only a few cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) lines of cotton have been pr...

    Authors: Qingyu Pei, Jinshan Liu, Chunping Guo, Xiaomei Ma, Xiaoyan Liu, Chunyuan You, Hairong Lin, Zhibo Li, Ruihai Zhao, Bo Zhu, Yuanlong Wu, Zhenyuan Pan and Xinhui Nie
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:26
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  31. Climate deterioration, water shortages, and abiotic stress are the main threats worldwide that seriously affect cotton growth, yield, and fiber quality. Therefore, research on improving cotton yield and tolera...

    Authors: Yuewei Xu, Yunlei Zhao, Wei Chen, Xiaohui Sang, Pei Zhao and Hongmei Wang
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:27
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  32. Globally, the cultivation of cotton is constrained by its tendency for extended periods of growth. Early maturity plays a potential role in rainfed-based multiple cropping system especially in the current era ...

    Authors: Supritha D S Raj, Rajesh S. Patil, Bhuvaneshwara R. Patil, Spurthi N. Nayak and Kasu N. Pawar
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:25
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  33. Anthonomus grandis grandis is the main cotton pest in the Americas, with the potential to become a pest in other continents. The insect uses the plant’s reproductive organs for feeding, oviposition, and survival ...

    Authors: Beatriz S. Coelho, Suzany A. Leite, Mateus P. dos Santos, Eloito C. de Mates, Beatriz M. L. de Moraes, Cristina S. Bastos, Raul N. C. Guedes, Aldenise A. Moreira and Maria A. Castellani
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:24
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  34. The quality of cotton fiber determines its value in the textile market, influencing agricultural profitability and the efficiency of textile processing. The selection of genotypes with superior fibers is a key...

    Authors: Luis MORALES-ARANIBAR, Manuel Canto SÁENZ, Carlos Genaro MORALES-ARANIBAR, Marite Yulisa Nieves RIVERA, Jorge González AGUILERA, Fábio STEINER, Diógenes Martins BARDIVIESSO and Alan Mario ZUFFO
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:23
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  35. Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), adapted to tropical and subtropical regions of the world, is highly sensitive to low temperatures throughout its life cycle. The objective of this study was to evaluate the mitigat...

    Authors: Nurgül Ergin, Engin Gökhan Kulan, Pınar Harmanci and Mehmet Demir Kaya
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:21
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  37. Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is one of the most significant fibre and cash crops and plays an important role in Indian industrial and agricultural economies. However, over the years quantity and quality have be...

    Authors: Chossterfield Mawblei, Nallathambi Premalatha, Alagarsamy Manivannan and Kannan Senguttuvan
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:19
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  38. Cotton is an economically important crop. It is crucial to find an effective method to improve cotton yield, and one approach is to decrease the abscission of cotton bolls and buds. However, the lack of knowle...

    Authors: Guangling Shui, Hairong Lin, Xiaomei Ma, Bo Zhu, Peng Han, Nurimanguli Aini, Chunping Guo, Yuanlong Wu, Zhenyuan Pan, Chunyuan You, Guoli Song and Xinhui Nie
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:20
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:22

  40. Plant hormones profoundly influence cotton growth, development, and responses to various stresses. Therefore, there is a pressing need for an efficient assay to quantify these hormones in cotton. In this groun...

    Authors: Wenhao Wang, Xianpeng Song, Dan Wang, Yajie Ma, Yongpan Shan, Xiangliang Ren, Hongyan Hu, Changcai Wu, Jun Yang and Yan Ma
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:18
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  41. The lint percentage of seed cotton is one of the most important parameters for evaluating seed cotton quality and affects its price. The traditional measuring method of lint percentage is labor-intensive and t...

    Authors: Lijie Geng, Pengji Yan, Zhikun Ji, Chunyu Song, Shuaifei Song, Ruiliang Zhang, Zhifeng Zhang, Yusheng Zhai, Liying Jiang and Kun Yang
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:16
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  42. Cotton has enormous economic potential, providing high-quality protein, oil, and fibre. But the comprehensive utilization of cottonseed is limited by the presence of pigment gland and its inclusion. Pigment gl...

    Authors: Yue Sun, Ping Yang, Yifei Han, Huazu Li, Deli Sun, Jinhong Chen, Shuijin Zhu and Tianlun Zhao
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:14
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  43. Natural and synthetic plant growth regulators are essential for plant health, likewise these regulators also play a role in increasing organic production productivity and improving quality and yield stability....

    Authors: Jameel M. Al-Khayri, Muhammad Arif, Shadia Hama Salih Kareem, Adeel Anwar, Hossein Dehghanisanij, Somayeh Emami, Azra Yasmeen, Komal Aftab and Mohamed Negm
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:15
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  44. Water deficit is an important problem in agricultural production in arid regions. With the advent of wholly mechanized technology for cotton planting in Xinjiang, it is important to determine which planting mo...

    Authors: Xuejiao Wang, Yanping Hu, Chunrong Ji, Yongfan Chen, Shuai Sun, Zeshan Zhang, Yutong Zhang, Sen Wang, Mingfeng Yang, Fen Ji, Yanyun Guo, Jie Li and Lizhen Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:13
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  45. As the most widely cultivated fiber crop, cotton production depends on hybridization to unlock the yield potential of current varieties. A deep understanding of genetic dissection is crucial for the cultivatio...

    Authors: Ahmed M. Abdelghany, Aly A. A. El-Banna, Sobhi F. Lamlom, Gawhara A. El-Sorady, Ehab A. A. Salama, Honglei Ren, Abdulwahab S. Shaibu and Waleed M. B. Yehia
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:12
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  46. Cotton is one of the most important fiber crops that plays a vital role in the textile industry. Its production has been unstable over the years due to climate change induced biotic stresses such as insects, d...

    Authors: Ali Ijaz Ahmed, Azeem Iqbal Khan, Mohamed A. M. Negm, Rida Iqbal, Muhammad Tehseen Azhar, Sultan Habibullah Khan and Iqrar Ahmad Rana
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:10
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  48. Chitinase is an enzyme that hydrolyzes chitin, a major component of the exoskeleton of insects, including plant pests like whiteflies. The present study aimed to investigate the expression of chemically synthe...

    Authors: Samina Bashir, Amina Yaqoob, Rohina Bashir, Shanila Bukhari, Naila Shahid, Saira Azam, Allah Bakhsh, Tayyab Husnain, Ahmad Ali Shahid and Abdul Qayyum Rao
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:9
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  49. Light is a critical factor in plant growth and development, particularly in controlled environments. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have become a reliable alternative to conventional high pressure sodium (HSP) l...

    Authors: Yichi Zhang, Baopeng Liao, Fangjun Li, A. Egrinya Eneji, Mingwei Du and Xiaoli Tian
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:8
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:11

  50. Pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) has become a potential pest of cotton by causing substantial yield losses around the world including Pakistan. Keeping in view the fac...

    Authors: Shamim Akhtar, Muhammad Jalal Arif, Muhammad Dildar Gogi and Imran-ul Haq
    Citation: Journal of Cotton Research 2024 7:7
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