duction. The model was developed and verified using field data from irrigated commercial cotton fields in the A new version of the GRAMI crop model capable of being caliTexas High Plains, USA. The model was validated using brated within season was developed and tested for cotton (Gossypium field data from independent sites in this region, and its hirsutum L.) production in semiarid regions. The...

The first transgenic cotton having insect or herbicide resistance was released to the field in 1996 in the United States. Since then the rapid increase in transgenic cotton acreage within 10 years attests to the overall success of agricultural biotechnology. This review article provides an overview of genetically modified cotton and its application in agricultural production. We first criticall...

The polyphagous mirid bug Apolygus lucorum (Heteroptera: Miridae) has more than 200 species of host plants and is an insect pest of important agricultural crops, including cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) and mungbean (Vigna radiata). Previous field trials have shown that A. lucorum adults prefer mungbean to cotton plants, indicating the considerable potential of mungbean as a trap crop in cotton fi...