Cotton Improvement - Wednesday Early Afternoon

Wednesday, January 6, 2016: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Preservation Hall Studios 7 & 8 (New Orleans Marriott)
1:30 PM
Understanding the Cotton Fiber Elongation Process Using Short Fiber Mutants, the Ligon Lintless-1 (Li1) and -2 (Li2) as an Experiment Model System
Marina Naoumkina, Cotton Fiber Bioscience Unit, USDA ARS; Gregory N Thyssen, Cotton Chemistry and Utilization Research Unit, USDA ARS; David D Fang, Cotton Fiber Bioscience Unit, USDA ARS; Rickie B Turley, Crop Genetics Research Unit, USDA ARS; Doug J Hinchliffe, Cotton Chemistry and Utilization Research Unit, USDA ARS
1:45 PM
Mapping By Sequencing and RNA-Seq in Upland Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) Line MD52ne Identifies Candidate Genes for Fiber Strength and Quality
Md S Islam, USDA ARS; Linghe Zeng, USDA-ARS; Gregory N Thyssen, Cotton Chemistry and Utilization Research Unit, USDA ARS; Christopher D. Delhom, USDA ARS; Hee Jin Kim, USDA ARS; Ping Li, USDA ARS; David D Fang, Cotton Fiber Bioscience Unit, USDA ARS
2:00 PM
RNAi PHYA1 Event in Crosses with Upland Elite Lines
Johnie N Jenkins, USDA-ARS; Jack C McCarty, USDA-ARS; Sukumar Saha, ARS; Martin J Wubben, USDA-ARS; Dewayne D Deng, USDA-ARS; Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov, Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics
2:15 PM
Terpenoid Aldehydes - a Role in Host Plant Resistance
Jodi Scheffler, USDA-ARS; Pameka Sanders Johnson, USDA-ARS CGRU; Randall G. Luttrell, USDA-ARS SIMRU; Gregory Chad Roberts, USDA-ARS SIMRU
2:30 PM
Three Years of Field Performance Results of Reniform Nematode Resistant Germplasm Lines
Roelof Sikkens, Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences; David Weaver, Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences; Kathy Lawrence, Auburn University; Robert L. Nichols, Cotton Incorporated
2:45 PM
The Use of Disease Severity Variables in Predicting the Efficacy of FOV4 Resistance Selection
Nicholas E. Clark, University of California Cooperative Extension; TariLee Frigulti, University of California Cooperative Extension; Mauricio Ulloa, USDA-ARS; Robert B Hutmacher, University of California Cooperative Extension; Steven D. Wright, University of California Cooperative Extension; Mark Keeley, University of California Cooperative Extension; Robert L. Nichols, Cotton Incorporated