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Even after several economical transformations and technical advances in the synthetic fibers, cotton is still the most preferred fiber for its comfort and simplicity. Cotton has been an economic mainstay in both developed and developing countries and there is a huge demand for improved raw cotton in global textile industries due to their modernization. Besides its utility in cloth making, cotton lint is widely used in medicine, fire-extinguishing and more importantly in revealing the molecular mechanisms of cell elongation and polyploidization. Despite its importance and demand, the genetic improvement of cotton production through conventional breeding has shown slow progress due its complex genetic inheritance. To this end, recent advances in transcriptome profiling, functional genomics, proteomics and metabolomics approaches, coupled with molecular marker-assisted breeding and transgenic technology have made significant contributions in enhancing the efficiency of cotton breeding; these methods are collectively referred as molecular breeding. Efforts to link fiber quantitative trait loci, QTLs, and expression of genes involved in fiber development with molecular breeding tools provide novel targets for the development of desirable cotton fiber and economically and agronomically important traits. In this chapter, we describe progress made in these arenas, and discuss their limitations and perspectives relative to the genetic improvement of this economically-unique crop.
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Boopathi, N.M., Sathish, S., Kavitha, P., Dachinamoorthy, P., Ravikesavan, R. (2015). Molecular Breeding for Genetic Improvement of Cotton (Gossypium spp.). In: Al-Khayri, J., Jain, S., Johnson, D. (eds) Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22521-0_21
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