Use of ATR FT-IR Spectroscopy in Non-Destructive and Rapid Assessment of Developmental Cotton Fibers

The knowledge of chemical and compositional components in cotton fibers is of value to cotton breeders and growers for cotton enhancement and to textile processors for quality control. In this work, we applied the previously proposed simple algorithms to analyze the attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR FT-IR) spectra of developmental im and TM-1 fibers as young as 10 DPA and further to correlate the secondary cell wall synthesis of fibers with a traditional and time-consuming assay method