Cotton is an important crop. During past few years, cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) has emerged as an endemic. It has provided huge hindrance in production of high cotton yields. This disease is caused by cluster of begomovirus namely Cotton Leaf Curl Disease (CLCuD). Several breeding and transgenic approaches have been tried to overcome the problem. Among these RNA interference (RNAi) proved to be more promising. Use of RNA interference is favorable as the technique is environment friendly. In current research work RNAi based gene construct was transformed in two elite cotton verities...

Cotton being a cash crop contributes significantly to foreign exchange earnings.Presently cotton crop is threatened by the attack of insects and viruses like whitely and cotton leaf curl virus (CLCuV). To overcome this problem different genetic engineering techniques are being adopted. Among them RNA interference based resistance has proven to be reliable approach. RNA interference is a complex and conserved mechanism utilized by plants and other eukaryotes to protect themselves. The use of RNA interference provides environmental friendly approach to generate plants resistant to insects and...

My research covers the area of improvement of fiber quality characteristics of cotton plants. Fiber quality and yield is the ultimate goal of my research especially in area of gene transformation. There are two ways to enhance fiber quality goal via plant breeding of fiber improved varieties or to boast the fiber quality of plants via genetical modification. In this research methodology was adopted to transfer two genes, one from Calotropis procera species and other from Gossypium species, in order to improve the fiber parameters of cotton plants. The results have been promising in view that...