Friday, 6 January 2006: 8:00 AM-10:30 AM
Salon M (Marriott Rivercenter Hotel)
Cotton Improvement Conference - Session A1
Friday morning session from 8:00 to 10:00 then 10:30 break. Molecular papers
Presiding:	Peggy Thaxton, Delta Research and Extension Center, Stoneville, MS
8:00 AM			Cotton Germplasm Enhancement and Evaluation by SSR Markers   Xiongming Du1, Junling Sun1, Zhaoe Pan1, zhongli Zhou1, Baoyin Pang1, Guo qiang Liu1, Guang-rong Qin2, John Yu3 and Russell Kohel3, (1)Cotton Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultrual Science, Anyang, China, (2)Zheng Zhou University, Zhengzhou, China, (3)USDA-ARS, College Station, TX
8:15 AM			An Intraspecific SSR Linkage Map of Cotton Osman A. Gutierrez1, Jixiang Wu2, Johnie N. Jenkins1, Jack C. McCarty1, Dwaine A. Raska3 and David M. Stelly4, (1)USDA-ARS, Mississippi State, MS, (2)Mississippi State University, Dept. of Plant & Soil Sciences, Mississippi State, MS, (3)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, (4)Texa A&M University, College Station, TX
8:30 AM			Evaluation of the CMD Panel   Brian Scheffler, Gabriela Romano and Jodi Scheffler, USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS
8:45 AM			Development of High Throughput DNA Marker Systems in Cotton Based on Gene and Regulatory Sequences Jinfa Zhang1, Yingzhi Lu, Mingxiong Pang, Sarah Higbie, Doug Hinchliffe, Chen Niu, Youlu Yuan2 and Shuxun Yu2, (1)Las Cruces, NM, (2)Cotton Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences;Key Laboratory of Cotton Genetic Improvement, Ministry of Agriculture, P R China, Anyang, Henan, HI, China
9:00 AM			Development of Plant Regeneration and Transformation Protocols for Elite Georgia Cotton Lines   Kedong Da, Jennifer McCurdy and Peng W. Chee, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA
9:15 AM			Evaluating the Use of Cotton Chromosome Substitution Lines with a Newly Developed Model   Jixiang Wu, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, Johnie N. Jenkins, USDA-ARS-GAPARU, Mississippi State, MS, Jack C. McCarty, USDA-ARS, Mississippi State, MS and Sukumar Saha, USDA-ARS, Crop Science Research Laboratory, Mississippi State, MS
9:30 AM			Exogenic Allelism - A New Approach to Hybridization of Crop Plants   Vered Yesodi, Ofra Lotan and Jonathan Spenser, FertiSeeds Ltd., Ness Ziona, Israel
9:45 AM			From in-silico Prediction to in-vivo Validation: Evo101 – A New Gene Candidate with Key Role to Modulate Cotton Fiber   Sharon Ayal, Rodrigo Yelin, Dotan Dimet, Evgenia Gold, Gil Ronen and Hagai Karchi, Evogene, Rehovot, Israel
10:00 AM			Break
Sponsor:	Cotton Improvement Conference

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