Thursday, January 10, 2008: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Governor's D (Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center)
Cotton Improvement - Thursday Late Afternoon Session
Presiding:	Jodi Sheffler, Stoneville, MS
Organizer:	Mauricio Ulloa, USDA-ARS, Shafter, CA
4:00 PM			Replication and Repeatability - When Is Enough Enough? Melanie B. Bayles, Laval M. Verhalen, Bruce E. Greenhagen and Bradley R. Barnes, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
4:15 PM			Recombination of DNA Markers for Reniform and Root-knot Nematode Resistance in LONREN x Acala NemX Hybrids Alois A. Bell1, Nilesh D. Dighe2 and David M. Stelly2, (1)USDA-ARS-SPARC, College Station, TX, (2)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
4:30 PM			Using SSR Markers to Select for Root-Knot Nematode Resistance in a Cotton Breeding Program Tyson Andrew Phillips1, Gerald O. Myers2, Huangjun Lu2, Patrick D. Colyer3 and William D. Caldwell3, (1)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, (2)Louisiana State University AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA, (3)Louisiana State University AgCenter, Bossier City, LA
4:45 PM			Assembly and Sorting of Homologous BAC Contigs in Allotetraploid Cotton Genomes John Z. Yu, Zhanyou Xu and Russell J. Kohel, USDA-ARS, Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, Crop Germplasm Research Unit, College Station, TX
5:00 PM			Early-generation Breeding Results from Genome-Wide Introgression of G. longicalyx and G. armourianum Germplasm Nilesh D. Dighe1, A. Forest Robinson2, Alois A. Bell2, C. Wayne Smith1 and David M. Stelly1, (1)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, (2)USDA-ARS, College Station, TX
5:15 PM			Development of a Cotton Marker Database (CMD) Anna Blenda1, Taein Lee2, Randall Svancara2, Don C. Jones3 and Dorrie Main2, (1)Clemson University, Clemson, SC, (2)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, (3)Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC
5:30 PM			Business Meeting
Sponsor:	Cotton Improvement Conference

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