Evaluation and Genetic Analysis of Verticillium Wilt Resistance in the US Upland Cotton

Thursday, January 5, 2017: 11:15 AM
Reunion C (Hyatt Regency Dallas)
Abdelraheem Abdelraheem , New Mexico State University
Soum Sanogo , New Mexico State University
Jinfa Zhang , New Mexico State University
Vasu Kuraparthy , North Carolina State University
Amanda M Hulse-Kemp , Interdisciplinary Genetics Program, Texas A&M University
David M. Stelly , Texas A&M AgriLife Research
Lori Hinze , USDA-ARS
Don Jones , Cotton Incorporated
Resistance source of VW in Upland cotton is highly limited. In this study, an association mapping panel consisting of 367 Upland cotton accessions collected from the Cotton Belt in the U.S. was screened for VW resistance in several replicated tests in the greenhouse.