Year: 2016
Pages: 275-288
Number: Volume 8, issue 3
Type: scientific article
This review focuses on the perspective for Russia cultural plants - cotton. Cotton is demanding to mineral nutrition and climatic conditions, which requires a long frost-free warm temperatures, sunny days and moderate rainfall. Cotton fiber is considered to be a strategic resource of any country, therefore, important is the creation of domestic varieties of cotton that can be grown on the territory of Russia. In the climatic conditions of Russia at cultivation of cotton at the forefront is the problem of the negative influence of abiotic stress factors such as cold, frost and drought. Selection of cotton in our country should be aimed primarily at reducing the terms of vegetation and the acquisition of resistance to adverse environmental conditions. For faster achievement of desirable effect should be used also genetic engineering techniques. Obtaining of stress-resistant transgenic cotton plant will create in the future, the Russian raw material base and reduce dependence on cotton producing countries.
Gossypium, selection, cotton transformation, transgenic plants, genetically modified plants, stress tolerance, cotton varieties.