Rashmi S. Tiwari¹, Michael D. Gill², S. Bajaj³, Don. C. Jones⁴, James Mac Stewart⁵, Sidney E. Hughs⁶ and Jinfa Zhang¹, (1)New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, (2)New Mexico Department of Agriculture, Las Cruces, NM, (3)Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, (4)Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC, (5)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, (6)USDA-ARS Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory, Mesilla Park, NM