Cotton Improvement Graduate Student Competition - Wednesday Late Morning

Wednesday, January 6, 2016: 10:15 AM-11:15 AM
Preservation Hall Studios 7 & 8 (New Orleans Marriott)
10:15 AM
Molecular Mapping of Laciniate Leaf Shape Gene (LL-A2) in Diploid Cotton (G. arboreum)
Baljinder Kaur, North Carolina State University; Ryan Andres, North Carolina State University; Vasu Kuraparthy, North Carolina State University
10:30 AM
Genetic Analysis of a Recombinant Inbred Line Population in Gossypium barbadense
Abdelraheem Abdelraheem, New Mexico State University; Richard Percy, USDA-ARS; Mike Gore, Cornell University; Jane Dever, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Jinfa Zhang, New Mexico State University
10:45 AM
Determination of Lipid in Cotton Chromosomal Substitution Lines By Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
Diwas Kumar Silwal, Tennessee State University; Nsoki Phambu, Tennessee State University; Bharat Pokharel, Tennessee State University; Ahmad Aziz, Tennessee State University
11:00 AM
Phenotyping Drought Tolerance
Dustin Wilkerson, Texas A&M University; Steve Hague, Texas A&M University