Cotton Agronomy & Physiology - Thursday Early Afternoon - Session A

Thursday, January 6, 2011: 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
International 9 (Atlanta Marriott Marquis)
1:30 PM
Variability In Fiber Quality
Gayle Davidonis, USDA, ARS Retired
2:00 PM
Lint Yield and Crop Maturity Responses to Supplemental Irrigation In Tennessee
C. Owen Gwathmey, University of Tennessee; Brian G. Leib, University of Tennessee - Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science; Christopher L. Main, University of Tennessee
2:15 PM
Improving the Production and Drought Tolerance of Cotton through the Use of Conservation Tillage and Primed Acclimation
Diane L. Rowland, University of Florida; Wilson H. Faircloth, USDA-ARS, National Peanut Research Lab; Paxton Payton, USDA/ARS; Jack Shallock, Texas A&M University; Cristine Morgan, Texas A&M University, Soil & Crop Sciences Department
2:30 PM
Cotton Irrigation Regimes Alter Accumulation of Canopy Temperature-Based Heat Units
James R. Mahan, USDA-ARS; Andrew Young, Plant and Soil Science Texas Tech University
2:45 PM
Short Season Management Practices with Pima Cotton
Robert B. Hutmacher, University of California - Davis & West Side REC; Steven D. Wright, University of California Cooperative Extension; Mark P. Keeley, Univ. of California; Gerardo Banuelos, University of California Cooperative Extension; Raul Delgado, University of California
3:00 PM
Continued Investigations Into Water Savings through Conservation Tillage
Wilson H. Faircloth, USDA-ARS, National Peanut Research Lab; Diane L. Rowland, University of Florida
3:15 PM
Impact of Tillage Treatments Across Subsurface Drip Irrigation Levels In the Texas Rolling Plains
Paul B. DeLaune, Texas AgriLife Research; John W. Sij, Texas AgriLife Research; S. Park, Texas AgriLife Research; D. Jones, Texas AgriLife Research