Cotton Improvement - Tuesday Early Afternoon

Tuesday, January 7, 2014: 1:30 PM-3:15 PM
Preservation Hall Studios 7 & 8 (New Orleans Marriott)
Presiding:
Carol M. Kelly
1:30 PM
Structural and Functional Genomics Analyses of Two Near Isogenic Cottons (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Lines Differing in Fiber Maturity
Hee Jin Kim, USDA-ARS-SRRC; David D. Fang, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Linghe Zeng, USDA-ARS-MSA; Christopher D. Delhom, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Hong S. Moon, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Yuhong Tang, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
1:45 PM
Diallel Analysis for Cotton Fiber Standard Fineness
Neha Kothari, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Steve Hague, Texas A&M University; Eric F. Hequet, Texas Tech University; Jane K. Dever, Texas A&M AgriLife Research
2:00 PM
Transcript Profiling and Marker Analysis of the Short Cotton Fiber Mutant Ligon Lintless-1
David D. Fang, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Matthew Gilbert, USDA-ARS; Rickie Turley, USDA-ARS; Hee Jin Kim, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Gregory Thyssen, USDA-ARS; Ping Li, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Christopher D. Delhom, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Marina Naoumkina, USDA-ARS
2:15 PM
Genetic Mapping of Cotton Fiber Quality Using Two Near Isogenic Upland Cotton Lines Differing in Fiber Bundle Strength
Md Sariful Islam, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Linghe Zeng, USDA-ARS-MSA; Christopher D. Delhom, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Xianliang Song, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Hee Jin Kim, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Ping Li, USDA-ARS-SRRC; David D. Fang, USDA-ARS-SRRC
2:30 PM
Inheritance of Yield and Fiber Quality in Tetraploid Cottons Revealed By Csils Analysis
Tianzhen Zhang, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement
2:45 PM
Business Meeting and Awards Presentations