Cotton Improvement - Friday Early Afternoon

Friday, January 7, 2011: 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
Marquis - 103 - 105 (Atlanta Marriott Marquis)
1:30 PM
Mapping of SSR Markers Associated with Reniform Nematode Resistance In An Interspecific Cross of Gossypium
Osman A. Gutierrez, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University; A. Forest Robinson, USDA-ARS; Johnie N. Jenkins, USDA-ARS; Jack C. McCarty, USDA-ARS; Martin J. Wubben, USDA-ARS; Franklin E. Callahan, USDA-ARS; Robert L. Nichols, Cotton Incorporated
1:45 PM
Are Renari From Gossypium aridum and Renlon From G. longicalyx Duplicate Genes?
David Fang, USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center; Salliana R. Stetina, USDA-ARS Crop Genetics Research Unit
2:00 PM
LONREN Germplasm Response to Reniform Nematode Inoculation Level
Roelof B. Sikkens, Auburn University; Scott Moore, Auburn University; Kathy Lawrence, Auburn University; Tingting Wu, Auburn University; David Weaver, Auburn University
2:15 PM
LONREN X FM966 Progeny Evaluation In a Field Infested with Reniform Nematode
David Weaver, Auburn University; Roelof B. Sikkens, Auburn University; Scott Moore, Auburn University; Kathy Lawrence, Auburn University; Rachel Sharpe, Auburn University
2:30 PM
Development of Mississippi Cotton Breeding Lines Resistant to Reniform and Root-Knot Nematodes Via Marker Assisted Selection
Ted P. Wallace, Mississippi State University; Peggy Thaxton, Mississippi State University; Osman A. Gutierrez, Mississippi State University; Brian Scheffler, USDA-ARS; Sally Stetina, USDA-ARS; Jodi Scheffler, USDA-ARS
2:45 PM
Reevaluation of the Nematode Resistance In the M-120 RNR by Pima S6 Population
Yajun He, University of Georgia; Khalid Hussain, University of Georgia; Xinlian Shen, University of Georgia; Richard F. Davis, USDA-ARS; Peng W. Chee, University of Georgia
3:00 PM
Developing Conventional Cotton Cultivars with Value Added Traits
Dick L. Auld, Texas Tech University & Texas AgriLife Research; Jacob M. Rieff, Texas Tech University; Efrem Bechere, USDA-ARS
3:15 PM
Diallel Analysis of Earliness Among Brazilian and U.S. Upland Cotton
Camilo de Lelis Morello, Embrapa; C. Wayne Smith, Texas A&M; Steve Hague, Texas A&M; Eng Hwa Ng, Texas A&M University