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Research Project: Utilizing Conventional and Molecular Approaches to Enhance Seed and Fiber Quality Traits, and Conducting a National Cotton Variety Testing Program

Location: Crop Genetics Research

Title: Editorial: Trends in cotton breeding: Meeting the challenges of the 21st century

Author
item Zeng, Linghe
item WILSON, IAIN - Csiro, Black Mountain Laboratories
item BOURLAND, FRED - University Of Arkansas

Submitted to: Frontiers in Plant Science
Publication Type: Other
Publication Acceptance Date: 8/22/2022
Publication Date: 10/3/2022
Citation: Zeng, L., Wilson, I., Bourland, F.M. 2022. Trends in cotton breeding: Meet challenges in 21st century. Frontiers in Plant Science. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.1019956.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.1019956

Interpretive Summary: Cotton breeders are facing challenges to develop varieties for better yield and fiber quality under environmental extremes. A special issue in Frontiers in Plant Science was composed of cotton breeding articles from around the world. There are both review articles and original research studies in this issue. They discuss improving cotton under environmental stresses, developing new cotton lines, developing new methods in cotton cultivation and data analysis, and applying biotechnology tools in cotton breeding. The articles published in this issue can provide guidelines to researchers worldwide on solving problems in cotton production under global environmental changes.

Technical Abstract: Cotton breeders are facing challenges in the 21st century to develop cultivars for better yield and fiber quality under environmental extremes. New approaches need to be developed to tackle challenges in a rapidly changing agricultural climate. A special issue in Frontiers in Plant Science was edited by the ARS scientist collecting peer-reviewed articles worldwide in cotton breeding. The articles published in this issue were written by cotton researchers from major cotton producing countries including Australia, Brazil, China, India, United States, and Uzbekistan. There are both review articles and original research studies in this issue with scopes of improving cotton under biotic and abiotic stresses, developing new cotton germplasm and methods in cotton cultivation and data analysis, and applying biotechnology tools in cotton breeding. The research articles published in this issue can provide guidelines to researchers worldwide on solving problems in cotton production under global environmental changes.