9467 Impacts of Ginning Treatments on Fiber Length Distribution

Thursday, January 8, 2009: 9:00 AM
Conf. Room 11 (Marriott Rivercenter Hotel)
G.a. Holt, USDA ARS CPPRU, Lubbock, TX and Mourad Krifa, Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute- Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
This paper reports experimental results focusing on how length distribution features of a range of cotton varieties, grown over 3 seasons, are impacted by the intensity of mechanical processing at the gin.