THE INHERITANCE OF GOSSYPOL LEVEL IN GOSSYPIUM II: INHERITANCE OF SEED GOSSYPOL IN TWO STRAINS OF CULTIVATED GOSSYPIUM BARBADENSE L

The Inheritance of Gossypol Level in Gossypium I. Additive, Dominance, Epistatic, and Maternal Effects Associated with Seed Gossypol in Two Varieties of GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM L.

TUDIES in quantitative inheritance are generally conducted as the analysis of the effects of groups of genes acting in concert to produce the character under consideration. Rarely can the number of loci involved be knc". It is thus of some interest when the number o i genes involved in the production of a character can be known through the use of a method (which allows for discrimination among ...

Transformation of Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense by Rhizobium rhizogenes: Hairy root induction and gossypol production

Lowering seed gossypol content in glanded cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) lines

Cottonseed is a rich source of high quality protein, but its value as an animal feed is limited by gossypol, a toxic polyphenolic compound contained in glands located throughout the plant. This compound helps protect the plant from pests. Totally glandless varieties have been developed, but not adopted as these plants are left vulnerable to pests. This study describes a breeding strategy to dec...

Spodoptera exigua modulates gossypol biosynthesis in cotton Gossypium hirsutum

Cotton plants induce high levels of gossypol in response to herbivore damage. However, little is known about the mechanisms by which insect herbivory modulates gossypol biosynthesis in cotton plants. Here, we report the mechanism by which herbivore damage or insect-originated elicitors modulate the biosynthesis of gossypol and jasmonic acid (JA) in plants. Spodoptera exigua larval-damaged (HD) ...

The Genetics of Flowering Response in Cotton. II. Inheritance of Flowering Response in a Gossypium Barbadense Cross.

N the first paper of this series, LEWIS and RICHMOND (1957) called attention I to the renewed scientific interest in the introduction of cotton stocks from tropical centers of variability and reviewed the collecting expeditions that have been made to Mexico and Central America in recent years. More than half of the collected stocks failed to set fruit in the temperate zone during the summer whi...