Some Aspects Of Alive Cotton Fiber Morphology And Physiology

This book presents the original papers of the authors, published in different cotton related journals during 2000-2007. In this book authors used inverted light microscopy, electron microscopy, electron-positron annihilation spectroscopy and special preparation techniques to see in-vivo microstructure of alive cotton fiber and cotton seed inner structure without damaging. Authors have generated valuable data on the microstructure of cotton fiber at various stages of development by measuring the spectra of positron lifetime and the angular correlation of annihilation radiation. Original funding of authors is discovery luminescence phenomena of young alive cotton hair age 5-10 days after anthesis. The authors have described a non-muscular mobility of cotton fibers developing in vivo for four different cotton varieties. Fiber exhibits a collective pulsing and lengthening that is coordinated with non-muscular movement. The mechanisms of the living hair growlh of cotton cultivars at early stages of their development have been studied. It has been found that a plasmalemma of cells-hairs makes spiral movement during their lengthening.