TY - CHAP AU - Mangat V. Venugopalan AU - Mahendra Singh Yadav AU - Vandana Satish ED - Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov Y1 - 2016-11-09 PY - 2016 T1 - Institutional Structure of Cotton Research in India N2 - Cotton is the most important natural fiber crop of our planet, which provides humanity with cloth and vegetable oil, medicinal compounds, meal and hull for livestock feed, energy sources, organic matter to enrich soil, and industrial lubricants. Therefore, cotton research to improve sustainable cotton production worldwide is the vital task of scientific community to address the increasing demands and needs for cotton products. This Cotton Research book presents readers updated information and advances in current cotton science investigations. Chapters of this book provide the latest developments on cotton research and cover topics on cotton research infrastructure, physiology and agronomy, breeding and genetics, modern biotechnology, genomics and molecular breeding, crop management, and cotton-based product and textile researches. BT - Cotton Research SP - Ch. 2 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/63798 DO - 10.5772/63798 SN - 978-953-51-2737-6 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -