Abstract: The healthy development of cotton industry is of great significance to the economy of Xinjiang, and the effective management of pests and diseases is the key to ensure the stable development ...
This was accentuated by farmers not planting non-Bt cotton as a refuge crop for pests to feed on, which would have delayed the resistance to the Bt gene. “The onset of new diseases like boll rot ...
Fiber quality, disease resistance and germplasm that can perform under limited-water conditions will all be needed to keep the largest contiguous cotton-growing area in the world in production, she ...
nematodes and diseases and enables future herbicide options. Stoneville cottonseed will give growers the upper hand over root-knot and reniform nematodes, bacterial leaf blight, Verticillium wilt, ...
Consequently, efforts to create high-yielding, disease-resistant cotton varieties have been impacted, posing challenges for the agricultural sector and putting farmers’ livelihoods at risk.
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USDA has released its November 2024 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report. Here’s this month’s summary for cotton, showing lower production and export numbers for the U.S., as ...