List of Contributors

Rida Akram

Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari, Pakistan

Muhammad Amjad Ali

Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

and

Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Khizer Amanet

Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari, Pakistan

Raquel Santiago-Arenas

Department of Food, Agriculture and Bioresources, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathum Thani, Thailand

Habib-ur-Rehman Athar

Institute of Pure and Applied Biology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Ahmed Attia

Agronomy Department, Zagazig University, Sharqia, Egypt

and

Interdisciplinary Center of Energy Planning, State University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Farrukh Azeem

Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, GC University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Allah Bakhsh

Department of Agricultural Genetic Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, Nigde Ömer Halisdemir University, Nigde, Turkey

Huseyin Basal

Department of Crop Science, Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkey

Asia Batool

Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

and

Pulses Research Institute, AARI, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Diego Alberto Bela

Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria INTA - EEA Sáenz Peña, Resistencia, Argentina

Tejinder Bhagria

University of Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

D. Blaise

ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Seth Byrd

Texas A&M University, Lubbock, TX, USA

Bhagirath Singh Chauhan

The Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland, Australia

Emmanuel Obianuju Chiamaka

National Horticultural Research Institute, Ibadan, Nigeria

Avishek Datta

Department of Food, Agriculture and Bioresources, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathum Thani, Thailand

Mehmet Nedim Dogan

Department of Plant Protection, Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkey

Oktay Erdogan

Department of Biosystem Engineering, Nevsehir Hacı Bektas Veli University, Nevsehir, Turkey

Hafiz Umar Farid

Department of Agricultural Engineering, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Jehanzeb Farooq

Cotton Research Station, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute (AARI), Faisalabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Farooq

Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

and

Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khoud, Oman

and

The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Zannatul Ferdous

Department of Food, Agriculture and Bioresources, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathum Thani, Thailand

Ibrahim Gencsoylu

Department of Plant Protection, Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkey

Hatice Kubra Goren

Department of Crop Science, Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkey

Lucia Vieira Hoffmann

Embrapa Algodão, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil

Xue Huiyun

State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, China

Nadeem Iqbal

The Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland, Australia

Khawar Jabran

Department of Plant Production and Technologies, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, Nigde Ömer Halisdemir University, Nigde, Turkey

Mahsa Pourali Kahriz

Department of Plant and Animal Production, Ardahan Technical Sciences Vocational School, Ardahan University, Ardahan, Turkey

Parisa Pourali Kahriz

Department of Plant and Animal Production, Ardahan Technical Sciences Vocational School, Ardahan University, Ardahan, Turkey

Emine Karademir

Department of Crop Science, Siirt University, Siirt, Turkey

Parminder Kaur

University of Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Asad M. Khan

The Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland, Australia

Khalid Mahmood Khawar

Department of Field Crops Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

K. R. Kranthi

ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Current address: International Cotton Advisory Committee, Washington, DC, USA

Ivan Bonacic Kresic

Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria INTA - EEA Sáenz Peña, Resistencia, Argentina

Fernando Mendes Lamas

Embrapa Agropecuária Oeste, Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Gulshan Mahajan

The Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland, Australia

Abid Mahmood

Ayub Agricultural Research Institute (AARI), Faisalabad, Pakistan

Gautam Majumdar

Division of Crop Production, Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Sudheesh Manalil

The Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland, Australia

and

School of Agriculture and Environment, Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Crawley, Australia

and

Amrita University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Robert Mensah

NSW Department Primary Industries, Australian Cotton Research Institute, Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia

Ahmadreza Mobli

Department of Agronomy, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

and

The Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland, Australia

Mahboobeh Mollaee

Department of Agronomy, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

and

The Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland, Australia

Muhammad Mubeen

Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari, Pakistan

Navneet Kaur Mutti

The Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland, Australia

and

School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland, Australia

Wajid Nasim

Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari, Pakistan

Jorge Gabriel Paz

Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria INTA - EEA Sáenz Peña, Resistencia, Argentina

Li Pengcheng

State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, China

Lily L. Pereg

School of Science and Technology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

Cristiane Pilon

University of Georgia, Tifton, GA, USA

Gabriel Willie Quansah

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Soil Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana

Tyson B. Raper

University of Tennessee, Jackson, TN, USA

Muhammad Razaq

Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Abdul Rehman

Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

and

Department of Crop Science and Biotechnology, Dankook University, Cheonan, South Korea

Abhimanyu Rinwa

The Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland, Australia

and

Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Volkan Sezener

Cotton Research Institute, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Food Agriculture and Livestock, Aydin, Turkey

Mao Shuchun

State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, China

Sujeet Kumar Shukla

Ginning Training Centre, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology (CIRCOT), Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Suman Bala Singh

Division of Crop...