Cotton Insect Research and Control - Thursday Morning - Session B

Thursday, January 7, 2016: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Galerie 2 (New Orleans Marriott)
8:00 AM
Arizona Pink Bollworm Eradication 2015 Program Update
Leighton R Liesner, Arizona Cotton Research and Protection Council
8:15 AM
Rapid Identification of Helicoverpa armigera and Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Using Ribosomal RNA Internal Transcribed Spacer 1
Omaththage P Perera, USDA-ARS; Kerry C Allen, USDA-ARS SIMRU; Devendra Jain, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology; Matthew Purcell, USDA ARS Australian Biological Control Laboratory; Nathan S Little, USDA-ARS SIMRU; Randall G. Luttrell, USDA-ARS SIMRU
8:30 AM
Conventional to Bt Cotton Vis-ŕ-Vis Bollworms to Whitefly: Cotton Cultivation Again Under Threat in Northern India
Satnam Singh, Punjab Agricultural University; Suneet Pandher, Punjab Agricultural University; Aman Sharma, Punjab Agricultural University; Kulvir Singh, Punjab Agricultural University; Pankaj Rathore, Punjab Agricultural University; R K Gumber, Punjab Agricultural University
8:45 AM
Wing Morphology of Boll Worm and Other Related Species
Mathew S Seymour, USDA; Omaththage P Perera, USDA-ARS
9:15 AM
Fungal Endophytes Can Negatively Affect Cotton Herbivores Above and Below Ground
Wenqing Zhou, Texas A&M University; James L Starr, Texas A&M University; Gregory A. Sword, Texas A&M University
9:45 AM
Beyond IPM: Fungal Endophytes in Cotton for Integrated Stress Management
Gregory A. Sword, Texas A&M University; Allison Jack, Symbiota; Vijay Verma, Texas A&M University; Cesar Valencia, Texas A&M University; Diana Castillo Lopez, Symbiota; Wenqing Zhou, Texas A&M University; Ashley Tessnow, Texas A&M University; Maria Julissa Ek-Ramos, Autonomous University of Nuevo León; Steve Hague, Texas A&M University; Luis Marquez, Symbiota; Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Symbiota