Transgenic cotton : from biotransformation methods to agricultural application /Baohong Zhang --Genetically modified cotton in India and detection strategies /Gurinder Jit Randhawa and Rashmi Chhabra --Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of cotton /Baohong Zhang --Biolistic transformation of cotton zygotic embryo meristem /Kanniah Rajasekaran --Biolistic transformation of cotton embryogenic cell suspension cultures /Kanniah Rajasekaran --Cotton transformation via pollen tube pathway /Min Wang, Baohong Zhang, and Qinglian Wang --Silicon carbide whisker-mediated transformation of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) /Muhammad Arshad, Yusuf Zafar, and Shaheen Asad --Investigating transgene integration and organization in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) genome /Jun Zhang and Yan Hong --Estimating the copy number of transgenes in transformed cotton by real-time quantitative PCR /Chengxin Yi and Yan Hong --Development of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the detection of Bt protein in transgenic cotton /Suchitra Kamle, Abhishek Ojha, and Arvind Kumar --DNA-based diagnostics for genetically modified cotton : decaplex PCR assay to Differentiate MON531 and MON15985 Bt cotton events /Gurinder Jit Randhawa, Monika Singh, and Rashmi Chhabra --Simple and rapid method for determining transgenic cotton plants /Baohong Zhang ... [et al.] --Efficient grafting technique for recovery of transgenic cotton plants /Min Wang, Qinglian Wang, and Baohong Zhang --Inheritance of transgenes in transgenic Bt lines resistance to Helicoerpa armigera in upland cotton /Baolong Zhang, Wangzhen Guo, and Tianzhen Zhang --Agrobacterium rhizogenes-induced cotton hairy root culture as an alternative tool for cotton functional genomics /Hee Jin Kim --Overexpression of miR 156 in cotton via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation /Baohong Zhang ... [et al.] --Development of transgenic CryIA(c) + GNA cotton plants via pollen tube pathway method confers resistance to Helicoverpa armigera and Aphis gossypii Glover /Zhi Liu, Zhen Zhu, and Tianzhen Zhang --Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) shoot apex with a fungal phytase gene improves phosphorus acquisition /Zhiying Ma, Jianfeng Liu, and Xingfen Wang --Genetic transformation of cotton with a harpin-encoding gene hpaXoo confers an enhanced defense response against Verticillium dahliae kleb /Weiguo Miao and Jingsheng Wang --Development of insect-resistant transgenic cotton with chimeric TVip3A* accumulating in chloroplasts /Jiahe Wu and Yingchuan Tian --Determining gene flow in transgenic cotton /Xiaoping Pan.