Mardi Gras Ballroom Salons A, B, C & D (New Orleans Marriott) Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:30 PM - 10:00 PM Mardi Gras Ballroom Salons A, B, C & D (New Orleans Marriott) Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM Mardi Gras Ballroom Salons A, B, C & D (New Orleans Marriott) Friday, January 12, 2007 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Mardi Gras Ballroom Salons A, B, C & D (New Orleans Marriott)
Cotton Improvement Conference Posters
Organizer:	Dawn Fraser, Research, Delta & Pine Land Co., Hartsville, SC
		Identification of Representative and Discriminating Cotton Cultivar Selection Testing Sites in Greece  Dimitrios Baxevanos, Delta & Pine Land Hellas, Gianuli Larissa, Greece, Christos Goulas, University of Thessalonica, Plant Breeding Lab, Forestry Department, Thessalonica, Greece, S. Tzorztios, University of Thessaly/School of Agricultural Sciences/Lab. Of Biometry, Volos, Greece, Athanasios Mavromatis, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, Eva Brajos, Deltapine Spain, Seville, Spain and Jesus Rossi, DeltaPine, Spain, Seville, Spain
		Development of Mutant Okra-leaf Cotton Varieties for the Texas South Plains  Efrem Bechere and Dick Auld, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
		Improving the Efficiency of the Breeding Programs for Fiber and Yarn Quality  Carol Mason Kelly, Texas Tech University / Texas A&M Experiment Station, Lubbock, TX
		Roundup Ready Flex Bollgard II Uniform Cotton Variety Trials in South and Central Texas  Robert Lemon, AgriThority, Kansas City, MO, D.J. Pigg, Texas Cooperative Extension, College Station, TX, Dan D. Fromme, Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Corpus Christi, TX, Stephen P. Biles, Texas Cooperative Extension, Corpus Christi, TX, Dale Rankin, Texas Cooperative Extension, Columbus, TX, Peter McGuill, Texas AgriLlife Extension Service, Wharton, TX, Brent Batchelor, Texas Cooperative Extension, Bay City, TX, Joe Mask, Rosenberg, TX, Michael Hiller, Texas Cooperative Extension, Edna, TX and Vince Saladino, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station, TX
		Cotton Germplasm Lines Released by the University of Arkansas in 2006  Fred M. Bourland, University of Arkansas-NEREC, Keiser, AR and Don C. Jones, Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC
		Bacterial Blight Reactions of Sixty-one Cotton Cultivars  Melanie B. Bayles and Laval M. Verhalen, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
		Ovule Rescue Efficiency of Gossypium hirsutum × G. arboreum Progeny from Field-grown Fruit is Affected by Media Composition and Antimicrobial Compounds  Erik J. Sacks, USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS
		Handouts Summarizing All Phenotyped Lineages and Resistance Gene Markers from USDA/TAMU Project Introgressing Reniform Nematode Resistance into Upland Cotton from Gossypium longicalyx  A. F. Robinson1, A.A. Bell1, Nilesh Dighe2, Monica Menz2, D.M. Stelly2, R. L. Nichols3 and R. G. Cantrell3, (1)USDA-ARS, College Station, TX, (2)Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, (3)Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC
		New Acala Germplasm Lines with High Yield Potential and Fiber Quality  Jinfa Zhang, Las Cruces, NM, R. G. Cantrell, Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC, C. Waddell, NMSU, Las Cruces, NM and Ed Hughs, USDA-ARS, Southwestern Cotton Ginning Laboratory, Las Cruces, NM
		Yield and Fiber Quality of an Exotic Germplasm Population Derived from Multiple Crosses Among Tetraploid Species in Gossypium Assessed by Cluster Analysis  Linghe Zeng, William R. Meredith and Debbie Boykin, USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS
		Release of LA1110017 and LA1110004 Germplasm Lines of Cotton  Gerald O. Myers1, J. X. Zumba1, W. I. Dickson1 and W. D. Caldwell2, (1)LSU AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA, (2)LSU AgCenter, Bossier City, LA
		Performance of Roundup Ready Flex Cotton Cultivars in Texas in 2006  Randal K. Boman1, Mark S. Kelley1, R. Lemon2 and David J. Pigg3, (1)Texas Cooperative Extension, Lubbock, TX, (2)Texas AgriLife Extension Service, College Station, TX, (3)Texas Cooperative Extension, College Station, TX
		Cotyledons in Cotton: Who Needs 'Em?  Laval M. Verhalen, Melanie B. Bayles and Bruce E. Greenhagen, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
		Effect of Anitifungal Genes on Mycorrhizal Associations  Anna C. Nader, Fayetteville, AR and James McD. Stewart, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
		Temporal and Spatial Expression of GFP Gene in Transgenic Cotton  Kedong Da, Peggy Ozias-Akins, Jennifer McCurdy and Peng W. Chee, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA
		QTL Analysis of Resistance to Verticillium Wilt Using Gossypium hirsutum and G. barbadense Backcross Populations  Baocai Zhang, Junwen Li, Aiying Liu, Yuzhen Shi, Yanhua Shao, Jianghong Zhang, Liang Jia and Youlu Yuan, Cotton Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences;Key Laboratory of Cotton Genetic Improvement, Ministry of Agriculture, P R China, Anyang, Henan, China
		2006 Louisiana Evaluation of Spatially Variable Defoliation  R. Keith Collins1, Ralph D. Bagwell2, Jonathan W. Sharp2, a. M. Stewart3 and D. Keith Morris4, (1)LSU AgCenter, Rayville, LA, (2)LSU Agcenter, Winnsboro, LA, (3)LSU AgCenter, Alexandria, LA, (4)LSU AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA
		Progress in Screening Obsolete Race Stocks and Other Wild Cottons for Useful Traits at the Crops Genetic Research Facility at the Texas A&M Research and Extension Center at Lubbock, Texas  M. D. Arnold, J. R. Gannaway, M. A. Sheehan, M. N. Castillo, J. L. Mabry and L. W. Wells, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Lubbock, TX
		QTL Analyses of Flowering Time in a Primitive Cotton Accession (Gossypium hirsutum L.)  Yufang Guo1, Jack C. McCarty2, Sukumar Saha2, Johnie N. Jenkins2 and Jixiang Wu1, (1)Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, (2)USDA-ARS, Crop Science Research Laboratory, Mississippi State, MS
		Gene Expression Changes in Gossypium arboreum as Response to Reniform Nematode Infection by Subtractive Hybridization cDNA-AFLP  Carlos A. Avila1, James McD. Stewart1 and Robert T. Robbins2, (1)University of Arkansas, CSES, Fayetteville, AR, (2)University of Arkansas, PLPA, Fayetteville, AR
		Molecular Diversity of Gossypium herbaceum and G. arboreum Accessions  Stella Kantartzi1, Mauricio Ulloa2 and James McD. Stewart1, (1)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, (2)USDA-ARS, Shafter, CA
		Isolation of Genes Encoding Cellulose Synthase Catalytic Subunit (GhCesA) from a Cotton BIBAC Library  Hee Jin Kim1, Mi-Kyung Lee2, Hong-Bin Zhang2 and Barbara A. Triplett3, (1)University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, (2)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, (3)USDA-ARS, New Orleans, LA
		Genetic Diversity of Tetraploid Cotton Species Based on AFLP and GT-AFLP Analysis  Jinfa Zhang, Las Cruces, NM, Wu Wang, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, Mingxiong Pang, R. Esmail, James Stewart, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR and Richard G. Percy, USDA-ARS, Maricopa, AZ
		Disease Resistance Gene Analogues in Cotton: Expression and Sequence Analysis  Chen Niu, M. Pang and Jinfa Zhang, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
		Morphological, Yield and Fiber Quality QTL Analyses of Cotton Genetic Standards  Steven M. Hoffman1, A.E. Pepper1, Russell Kohel2 and J. Yu2, (1)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, (2) USDA-ARS SPARC Office, College Station, TX
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