Friday, 6 January 2006: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Salon M (Marriott Rivercenter Hotel)
Cotton Improvement Conference - Session B
Friday morning 10:30 to 12:00 then noon for lunch Disease papers
Presiding:B. Todd Campbell, USDA-ARS, Florence, SC
10:30 AM 
Engineering cotton for higher drought- and salt-tolerance
Hong Zhang1, Cixin He1, Dick Auld1, Eduardo Blumwald2 and Roberto Gaxiola3, (1)Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, (2)University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, (3)Department of Plant Sciences, Storrs, CT
10:45 AM 
Recovery of Recurrent Parent Traits when Backcrossing in Cotton  [ Recorded presentation ] Melanie B. Bayles1, Laval M. Verhalen1, Lloyd L. McCall2, William M. Johnson3 and Bradley R. Barnes1, (1)Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, (2)Emergent Genetics, Inc., Memphis, TN, (3)Texas Cooperative Extension, Dickinson, TX
11:00 AM 
Inheritance of Resistance to Reniform Nematode in an Interspecific Cross of Gossypium A. Forest Robinson1, Osman A. Gutierrez2, Johnie N. Jenkins2, Jack C. McCarty2, Martin J. Wubben2 and Clarence E. Watson3, (1)USDA-ARS, College Station, TX, (2)USDA-ARS, Mississippi State, MS, (3)MAFES, Mississippi State, MS
11:15 AM 
Commercial and Improved Germplasm Evaluations for Fusarium Wilt, FOV race 1 with root-knot nematodes and race 4 Mauricio Ulloa1, Bob Hutmacher2, R. Michael Davis3, Rebecca Bennett4, Richard Percy5, Brian Marsh6, Steve Wright7 and Michael McGuire4, (1)USDA-ARS, WICS Res. Unit, Cotton Enhancement Program, Shafter, CA, (2)University of California, Shafter, CA, (3)University of California, Davis, CA, (4)USDA-ARS, WICS Res. Unit, Shafter, CA, (5)USDA-ARS, Maricopa, AZ, (6)Univ. of California, Shafter, CA, (7)University of California, Tulare, CA
11:30 AM 
Evaluation of Nectariless Breeding Lines for Resistance to Plant Bugs  [ Recorded presentation ] T. P. Wallace and F. A. Harris, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
11:45 AM 
Disease Resistance in Transgenic Cottons Kanniah Rajasekaran1, Mauricio Ulloa2, Bob Hutmacher3, Jeff Cary1 and Thomas Cleveland1, (1)USDA, ARS, SRRC, New Orleans, LA, (2)USDA-ARS, WICS Res. Unit, Cotton Enhancement Program, Shafter, CA, (3)University of California, Shafter, CA
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