Cotton Production and Processing

Industrial Applications of Natural Fibres: Structure, Properties and Technical Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 219-234

  Chaudhry, Muhammed Rafiq ^a  

^a International Cotton Advisory Committee   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotech cotton herbicide resistant biotech cotton planted on commercial scale; Cotton harvesting and ginning; Cotton origin and history; Cotton plant nutrition sandy loam soils, soil pH range 6 to 8; Cotton production and processing; Cotton most important natural fibre crops; Insect pests and control top insecticide consumer among all field crops; Organic cotton without use of synthetically compounded chemicals; Phenology perennial tree, domesticated varieties bred to grow as annuals; Physiology absorbing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen from the air

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855205807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470660324.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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