Cotton Improvement - Tuesday Early Morning

Tuesday, January 7, 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Preservation Hall Studios 7 & 8 (New Orleans Marriott)
Student paper competition begins at 9:00
Presiding:
Jane K. Dever
8:00 AM
Trends in United States Cotton Yield Productivity Since 1980
Todd Campbell, USDA-ARS; Debbie Boykin, USDA-ARS; Zaid Abdo, USDA-ARS; Bill Meredith, USDA-ARS
8:15 AM
Yield Adjustment for Small Plot Yield Trials on the High Plains of Texas
Valerie M. Morgan, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Jane K. Dever, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Carol M. Kelly, Texas A&M AgriLife Research
8:30 AM
Addressing Adventitious Presence in Public Germplasm
Ted P. Wallace, Mississippi State University; Don C. Jones, Cotton Incorporated; Richard Percy, USDA-ARS-SPARC
8:45 AM
Facilitating the Use of Wild Species Germplasm for Cotton Improvement via CS Lines
David M. Stelly, Texas A&M University; Dwaine A. Raska, Texas A&M University-Soil and Crop Sciences; Sukumar Saha, USDA-ARS-GPAR; Johnie N. Jenkins, USDA-ARS-GPAR; Jack C. McCarty, USDA-ARS-GPAR; Jixiang Wu, South Dakota State University; Jane K. Dever, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Mark D. Arnold, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Heather D. Flippin, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Don C. Jones, Cotton Incorporated
9:00 AM
Phenotyping Drought Tolerance in Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum, L.)
Austin C Terhune, Texas A&M Agrilife; Steve Hague, Texas A&M University
9:15 AM
Emergence of a Cotton SNP Chip from Consortium-Based Collaborations
Amanda M. Hulse, Texas A&M University; David M. Stelly, Texas A&M University; Allen Van Deynze, University of California; Hamid Ashrafi, University of California; Iain Wilson, CSIRO Plant Industry; Qianhao Zhu, CSIRO Plant Industry; Don C. Jones, Cotton Incorporated
9:30 AM
Mapping and Genomic Targeting of the Major Leaf Shape Gene (L) in Upland Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
Ryan J. Andres, North Carolina State University; D. T. Bowman, North Carolina State University; B. Kaur, North Carolina State University; V. Kuraparthy, North Carolina State University
9:45 AM
Deep Sequencing Identifies Cotton miRNA Roles in Response to Stress of Drought and Salinity
Fuliang Xie, East Carolina University; Runrun Sun, East Carolina University; Baohong Zhang, East Carolina University