Thursday, January 10, 2008: 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
Governor's D (Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center)
Cotton Improvement - Thursday Early Afternoon Session
Presiding:	Mauricio Ulloa, USDA-ARS, Shafter, CA
Organizer:	Mauricio Ulloa, USDA-ARS, Shafter, CA
Part 1
1:30 PM			Welcoming Remarks
Part 2
1:35 PM			Evaluation of Cotton Seed Technologies and Production Systems D.E. McGriff, University of Georgia Extension Service, Douglas, GA, Mark von Waldner, University of Georgia Extension Service, Pearson, GA and Don Shurley, University of Georgia Extension Service, Tifton, GA
1:50 PM			Agronomic Evaluation of Eight Elite Pima Lines Possessing Superior Fiber Quality Richard G. Percy, USDA-ARS, Maricopa, AZ, Mauricio Ulloa, USDA-ARS, Shafter, CA and Jinfa Zhang, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
2:05 PM			Screening and Evaluating Wild Cotton for Salt Tolerance Characteristics M. Natalia Castillo, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Lubbock, TX
2:20 PM			Update on Fusarium Race 4 Varietal Evaluations in California Robert B. Hutmacher1, Mauricio Ulloa2, Steve D. Wright3, Mark Keeley4, R. Michael Davis5, Daniel S. Munk6, Gerardo Banuelos3, Brian H. Marsh1, Richard G. Percy7, Les Smith1 and Monica Biggs2, (1)University of California, Shafter, CA, (2)USDA-ARS, Shafter, CA, (3)University of California Cooperative Extension, Tulare, CA, (4)University of California Dept Plant Sciences, Shafter, CA, (5)University of California, Davis, CA, (6)University of California, Fresno, CA, (7)USDA-ARS, Maricopa, AZ
2:35 PM			Fusarium Resistance Research Underway at Phytogen Seed Company, LLC D.M. Anderson, Joel F. Mahill, Chibwe Chungu and Tim Anderson, Phytogen Seed Company, LLC, Corcoran, CA
2:50 PM			Quality Score (QS): Breeder Selection Tool Don C. Jones and Ed M. Barnes, Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC
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