Contents: 1. Introduction and history. 2. Evolution of cultivated cottons. 3. Species and races of cotton. 4. Gene interaction and pleiotropy. 5. Qualitative inheritance. 6. Polygenic inheritance. 7. Cytoplasmic inheritance. 8. Genetics of male sterility. 9. Linkage and gene mapping. 10. Multiple alleles. 11. Mutations. 12. Distant hybridization. 13. Chromosome morphology. 14. Numerical chromosomal changes. 15. Structural chromosomal changes.

This book has been designed to provide comprehensive information on Cotton Genetics in objective manner one compact volume of 15 chapters.