**Meet the editor**

Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov received his B.S. Degree (1997) in biotechnology from the National University of Uzbekistan, and received M.S. Degree in plant breeding (2001) from Texas A&M University, Texas, USA. He received his PhD degree (2002) in molecular genetics, Doctor of Science degree (2009) in genetics and full professorship (2011) in molecular genetics and molecular

biotechnology area from the Institute of Genetics and Plant Experimental Biology, Academy of Uzbek Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He is a founder and director of the Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Uzbekistan. His research areas include plant genomics, marker-assisted selection, transgenomics, proteomics and bioinformatics. Prof. Abdurakhmonov currently serves as associate editor in several international scientific journals on plant sciences. He is a member of executive board of International Cotton Researchers Association (ICRA), USA. He has received 2010 TWAS prize in agriculture, Uzbekistan government award "Mark of Uzbekistan" in 2010, and ICAC Cotton Researcher of the Year 2013.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Australian Cotton Germplasm Resources 1** Warwick N. Stiller and Iain W. Wilson

Chapter 2 **Cotton Germplasm Resources in China 35**

**Association Mapping 55**

Chapter 4 **Cotton Germplasm in India — New Trends 87**

Tianzhen Zhang

and R. Ravikesavan

Yu

Chapter 6 **Cotton Germplasm of Pakistan 137**

Abdullah and Yusuf Zafar

Yinghua Jia, Junling Sun and Xiongming Du

Chapter 3 **Exploitation of Chinese Upland Cotton Cultivar Germplasm Resources to Mine Favorable QTL Alleles Using**

Hongxian Mei, Xiefei Zhu, Wangzhen Guo, Caiping Cai and

S.S. Narayanan, Parchuri Vidyasagar and K. Srinivasu Babu

N. Manikanda Boopathi, S. Sathish, P. Dachinamoorthy, P. Kavitha

Mehboob ur-Rahman, Zainab Rahmat, Abid Mahmood, Khalid

Richard G. Percy, James E. Frelichowski, Mark D. Arnold, Todd B. Campbell, Jane K. Dever, David D. Fang, Lori L. Hinze, Dorrie Main, Jodi Scheffler, Monica A. Sheehan, Mauricio Ulloa, Jing Yu and John

Chapter 5 **Usefulness and Utilization of Indian Cotton Germplasm 119**

Chapter 7 **The U.S. National Cotton Germplasm Collection – Its Contents, Preservation, Characterization, and Evaluation 167**
