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Managing Planting Time for Cotton Production

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Cotton Production and Uses

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Since cotton is responsive to its surrounding environments, an appropriate planting time is very important to realize its optimum yield potential. The temperature is an important environmental factor for which planting time varies across the world. It may be from few days to weeks, called as planting window. It must be optimized according to yield target, forthcoming weed, pest, disease, and abiotic stress problems. The planting time is considered optimum if it permits the completion of the crop vegetative and reproductive growth stages in an efficient way. There is an optimum planting time and further delay drastically reduced seed cotton yield. It determines the duration of various phenological stages such as appearance of first square, flower, and boll split on 50% population and total crop duration. Generally, early planting results in higher yield by extending growth period, and late planting reduces yield because of shortened season. The planting time has a major role for fiber and seed quality optimization to ensure good-quality yarn and better seed germination. The planting time is strictly monitored and legally implemented in certain regions of the world to prevent disease and pests. The climate change is threatening cotton production throughout the world, and adjustment of planting dates may play an effective role as an adaptation strategy to match fruiting phase to favorable climate.

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Abbreviations

BB:

Bacterial blight

CCRI:

Central Cotton Research Institute

CIM:

Cotton Institute Multan

CLCuD:

Cotton leaf curl virus disease

ENSO:

El Niño-Southern Oscillation

NIAB:

Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology

RLS:

Ramularia leaf spot

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  1. Central Cotton Research Institute, Multan, Pakistan

    Muhammad Naveed Afzal, Muhammad Tariq, Muhammad Ahmed & Zahid Mehmood

  2. Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

    Ghulam Abbas

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Afzal, M.N., Tariq, M., Ahmed, M., Abbas, G., Mehmood, Z. (2020). Managing Planting Time for Cotton Production. In: Ahmad, S., Hasanuzzaman, M. (eds) Cotton Production and Uses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1472-2_3

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