Oil content, fatty acid composition and the distribution of vitamin-E-active compounds of selected Turkish seeds that are typically by-products of the food processing industries (linseed, apricot, pear, fennel, peanut, apple, cotton, quince and chufa), were determined. The oil content of the samples ranged from 16.9 to 53.4 g/100 g. The dominating fatty acids were oleic acid (apricot seed oil, ...

Cotton fibers are the seed trichomes that developed around and used to make clothes yarn for textile industry. Expression profiling of cotton fiber genes is very important estimate differential gene expression level at different developmental stages. analysis developing enhance length cotton. The three families in five stages (0, 5, 10, 15 20 DPA) tissues was carried out through real-time PCR. ...

Cotton (Gossypium spp.) fibers are single-cell trichomes that arise from the outer epidermal layer of seed coat. Here, we isolated a R3-MYB gene GhCPC, identified by cDNA microarray analysis. The only conserved R3 motif and different expression between TM-1 and fuzzless-lintless mutants suggested that it might be a negative regulator in fiber development. Transgenic evidence showed that GhCPC o...

This investigation was aimed to study the management of bollworms using different integrated pest management strategies in cotton. Highest infestation in bolls at harvest was recorded in module-5 and lowest was recorded in module-2. Net returns were highest in module-5, which also recorded maximum cost-benefit ratio. Low net returns and cost-benefit ratio were recorded in module-3. Eventhough, ...

This study was carried out to determine the effects of putrescine(Put) and humic acid (HA) foliar applications on growth, yield and chemical composition of Egyptian cotton (Gossypium barbadense L. cv. Giza 90)plants grown under saline soil condition. A soil mixture of, clay: sand (1:1), was used as a plant growing media. Three different doses of putrescine (0, 1 and 2 ppm) and humic acid (0, 1 ...

Vacuolar invertase (VIN) has long been considered as a major player in cell expansion. However, direct evidence for this view is lacking due, in part, to the complexity of multicellular plant tissues. Here, we used cotton (Gossypium spp.) fibers, fast-growing single-celled seed trichomes, to address this issue. VIN activity in elongating fibers was approximately 4-6-fold higher than that in lea...

MYBMIXTA-like (MML) transcription factors form the subgroup 9 of R2R3MYBs (Stracke et al., 2001) whose first characterized member was MIXTA from Antirrhinum majus. Various MML genes have been shown to be important regulators of epidermal cell differentiation in different plant species, including specifying cell shape in petals, vegetative trichome initiation and branching and seed fiber initiat...

AIMS To determine the ability of the southern green stink bug (SGSB) (Nezara viridula L.) to transmit Pantoea agglomerans into cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) bolls. METHODS AND RESULTS An SGSB laboratory colony was kept on fresh green beans. A P. agglomerans variant resistant to rifampicin (Rif) (strain Sc 1-R) was used as the opportunistic cotton pathogen. Adult insects were individually provid...

A detailed restriction fragment length polymorphism map was used to determine the chromosomal locations and subgenomic distributions of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) segregating in a cross between cultivars of allotetraploid (AADD) Gossypium hirsutum (‘‘Upland’’ cotton) and Gossypium barbadense (‘‘Sea Island,’’ ‘‘Pima,’’ or ‘‘Egyptian’’ cotton) that differ markedly in the quality and quantity ...