Postgraduate: Damien Lightfoot - Fibre improvement through modulation of transitions in cotton development
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Lightfoot, Damien
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University Of Adelaide
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2006-06-30
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Abstract
The cotton boll contains the seeds of the plant to which long, white fibres are attached. The cotton industry takes advantage of these fibres to spin yarns for textile production.
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cotton seed fibre, insect damage, economic cost of insect damage, bt transgenic cotton, constitutive promoters, resulting in endotoxin, pesticide management, economic cost to secondary commercial products, promoters that could be used for tissue-specific expression, genome walker® pcr, genetic identification tools, cotton plant breeding, research for economic and environmental outcomes
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