title: Response and Tolerance Mechanism of Cotton Gossypium hirsutum L. to Elevated Temperature Stress: A Review.
abstract: Cotton is an important multipurpose crop which is highly sensitive to both biotic and abiotic stresses. Proper management of this cash crop requires systematic understanding of various environmental conditions that are vital to yield and quality. High temperature stress can severely affect the viability of pollens and anther indehiscence, which leads to significant yield losses. Cotton can respond to withstand adverse environmental condition in several phases among which the accumulation of chemicals is extremely vital. Calcium, kinases, reactive oxygen species, carbohydrate, transcription factors, gene expression regulation, and plant hormones signaling pathways are playing a handy role in activating the major genes responsible to encounter and defend elevated temperature stress. The production of heat shock proteins is up-regulated when crops are unleashed to high temperature stress. Molecular breeding can play a functional role to identify superior genes for all the important attributes as well as provide breeder ready markers for developing ideotypes. The development of high-temperature resistant transgenic cultivars of cotton can grant a stability benefit and can also ameliorate the production capacity in response to elevated temperature.
authors.affiliation: Hubei Key Laboratory of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, Central China Normal University Wuhan, China.
authors.forename: Kashif Rafiq
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Zahid
authors.affiliation: Cereal Crops Research Institute Pirsabak, Nowshera, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Farhan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.affiliation: Department of Agriculture, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Farooq
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, Mohi-ud-Din Islamic University Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Younas
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan, China.
authors.forename: Tariq
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Swabi Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Durri
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shahwar
authors.affiliation: Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture Multan, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Waseem
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hassan
authors.affiliation: Key Lab of Crop Disease Monitoring and Safety Control, Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan, China.
authors.forename: Zahoor
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ahmad
authors.affiliation: Hubei Key Laboratory of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, Central China Normal University Wuhan, China.
authors.forename: Chao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.affiliation: Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University Wenjian Sichuan, China.
authors.forename: Yanli
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Department of Agriculture, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Amjad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Iqbal
authors.affiliation: College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University Yangling, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wu
keywords: abscisic acid; cotton; heat stress; signal transduction