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.
About the Author 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 Y 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 de Y 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.
Percy has served as chair of the Cotton Crop Germplasm Committee, chair of the Internatio.
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