Published on October 2019 | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Cotton Fibre Quality Management for Sustainable Textile Industry

industrialists across the world due to its importance to the textile industry. Fibre quality is attributed to its various characteristics including fibre length, strength, micronaire value, colour, etc. Alteration of one or two of these traits can be interesting to evaluate their impact on quality but, being a multifactorial trait, it is necessary to use a combinational approach of genetic modification so as to breed all the desired alleles together to gather as many traits as possible for high-quality cotton fibre. Moreover, the use of genome editing technologies can also be very useful to knockout the traits responsible for inhibiting the expression of fibre related genes. The current study highlights important aspects of genome-based strategies for