Cotton Improvement - Thursday Early Afternoon

Thursday, January 5, 2012: 1:30 PM-3:15 PM
Crystal Ballroom C (Orlando World Center Marriott)
1:30 PM
Diallel Analysis of Three Confirmed Extra Long Staple Upland (ELSU) Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) Germplasm Lines
Benjamin Beyer, Texas A&M University; C. Wayne Smith, Texas A&M; Steve Hague, Texas A&M University
1:45 PM
Variable Effect of a Fiber Length QTL Deployed within Several Regionally Adapted Cultivars
Nino Brown, University of Georgia; Pawan Kumar, University of Georgia; Edward L. Lubbers, University of Georgia; Todd Campbell, USDA-ARS; Don Jones, Cotton Incorporated; Gerald O. Myers, LSU AgCenter; Jay Subramani, University of Arizona; Robert J. Wright, Texas Tech University and Texas AgriLife Research Center, Texas A & M System; Andrew H. Paterson, University of Georgia; Peng W. Chee, University of Georgia
2:00 PM
Generation Means Analysis of Fiber Length and Fiber Bundle Strength Using Extra Long Staple Upland, Mutated Upland, and Interspecific Hybrid Germplasm
Kolbyn S. Joy, Texas A&M University; C. Wayne Smith, Texas A&M University; Steve Hague, Texas A&M University; Don. C. Jones, Cotton Incorporated
2:15 PM
Crossing Elite Cotton Cultivars to Improve Fiber Elongation
Eng Hwa Ng, Texas A&M University; C. Wayne Smith, Texas A&M University; Steve Hague, Texas A&M University; Eric F. Hequet, Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute - Dept. Plant & Soil Science, Texas Tech University
2:45 PM
Degree of Fiber Whiteness in World Upland Cultivars
Kendra Gregory, Texas A&M University; C. Wayne Smith, Texas A&M University; Eric F. Hequet, Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute - Dept. Plant & Soil Science, Texas Tech University; Benjamin Beyer, Texas A&M University; Richard Percy, USDA-ARS
3:00 PM
Boll Maturation Time in Extra Long Staple Upland Cotton
Benjamin Tyler Meritt, Texas A&M; Camilo de Lelis Morello, Embrapa; K Gregory, Texas A&M; W Smith, Texas A&M; S. Hague, Texas A&M