Friday, January 12, 2007: 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
Balcony I (New Orleans Marriott)
Joint Session: Cotton Improvement and Utilization: Spinner-Breeder Symposium - Friday Early Afternoon
Presiding:Clif Boykin, USDA-ARS-Stoneville, Stoneville, MS
Organizers:Dawn Fraser, Research, Delta & Pine Land Co., Hartsville, SC and Kearny Q. Robert, Southern Regional Research Center, USDA-ARS, New Orleans, LA
1:30 PM 
Fiber Properties and Spinning Performance of Cotton Mutants Adapted to West Texas   
Mourad Krifa, Dick Auld and Efrem Bechere, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
1:45 PM 
Guidance for Breeders on Sample Preparation for Variety Evaluation by AFIS   
Kearny Q. Robert, Southern Regional Research Center, USDA-ARS, New Orleans, LA
2:00 PM 
Variety Ranking by Fiber Perimeter, a Method for Predicting Micronaire and Strength 
Gayle H. Davidonis, USDA-ARS, New Orleans, LA, J. Ivan Dickson, LSU AgCenter Cotton Fiber Lab, Baton Rouge, LA, Donald J. Boquet, LSU AgCenter, Winnsboro, LA and William R. Meredith, USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS
2:15 PM 
Progress in Developing ELS Upland   
C. Wayne Smith1, Peggy Thaxton2, C. Souder1, Steve Hague1 and Eric Hequet3, (1)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, (2)Delta Research and Extension Center, Mississippi State University, Stoneville, MS, (3)Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2:30 PM 
Creating Market Demand For Biologically Based Growing Systems in Cotton   
Marcia Gibbs, Sustainable Cotton Project of Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Davis, CA
2:45 PM 
Selection and Inbreeding Method Effects on Upland Cotton Yield and Fiber Properties   
David B. Weaver, Rachel S. Badger and Edzard van Santen, Auburn University, Auburn University, AL
3:00 PM 
Textile Fiber-length Properties of Seed Cotton - Part 1: Textile Mathematical Properties of the Normal Length Distribution 
Kearny Q. Robert1, Zhide Fang2 and Tumulesh Solanky2, (1)Southern Regional Research Center, USDA-ARS, New Orleans, LA, (2)University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
3:15 PM 
The Use of K-Means and Kohonen Self Organizing Maps to Classify Cotton Bales 
Josphat Igadwa Mwasiagi1, Huang XiuBao1, Wang XinHou1 and Chen Qing-dong2, (1)Dong Hua University, Shanghai, China, (2)Inspection Center of Industrial Products and Raw Materials, Shanghai, China
Sponsor:Utilization: Textiles/Fiber/Processing/Spinner-Breeder/Other

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