National Cotton Council of America
Beltwide Cotton Conferences
January 8-11, 2008
Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center
Nashville, Tennessee
The Cotton Foundation

Recorded Presentations

Friday, January 11, 2008 - 11:15 AM

Making Sticky Cotton for Laboratory Studies

David T.W. Chun, USDA-ARS, Cotton Quality Research Station, P.O. Box 792, Clemson, SC 29633

Cotton becomes sticky when insect honeydew contaminates seed cotton in the field or during harvest. In a study that attempts to use a yeast spray application to remediate this sticky cotton condition, a method to create on demand levels of sticky cotton was developed. This method blends sticky and non-sticky cottons to create a graded series of sticky cotton. This procedure can be useful for other studies involving sticky cotton.