Cotton Improvement - Tuesday Late Afternoon

Tuesday, January 7, 2014: 4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Preservation Hall Studios 7 & 8 (New Orleans Marriott)
Presiding:
Steve Hague
4:00 PM
Comparative Performance of Reniform Nematode Resistant Germplasm Lines
Roelof B. Sikkens, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology; David B. Weaver, Department of Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences; Kathy S. Lawrence, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology; Robert L. Nichols, Cotton Incorporated
4:15 PM
Towards the Development of Saturated Linkage Map and Functional Markers for Root-Knot Nematode (RKN) Resistance Loci in Upland Cotton
Pawan Kumar, University of Georgia; Yajun He, University of Georgia; Xinlian Shen, University of Georgia; Rippy Singh, University of Georgia; Richard F. Davis, USDA-ARS CPMRU; Robert L. Nichols, Cotton Incorporated; Peng Wah Chee, University of Georgia
4:30 PM
New Germplasm Lines with High Yield and Fiber Quality Combined with Nematode Resistance
Alois A. Bell, USDA-ARS-SPARC; Jose Quintana, USDA-ARS-SPARC; Sandria Prom, USDA-ARS-SPARC; David M. Stelly, Texas A&M University; Xiuting Zheng, Texas A&M University-Soil and Crop Sciences; Vince Saladino, Texas A&M University-Soil and Crop Sciences; Robert L. Nichols, Cotton Incorporated
4:45 PM
Accomplishments of a 10-Year Initiative to Develop Host Plant Resistance to Root-Knot and Reniform Nematodes in Cotton
Robert L. Nichols, Cotton Incorporated; Alois A. Bell, USDA-ARS; Roy G. Creech, Formerly Mississippi State University; Peng Wah Chee, University of Georgia; Richard F. Davis, USDA-ARS CPMRU; John Erpelding, USDA-ARS-CGRU; David D. Fang, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Osman A. Gutierrez, USDA-ARS-SHRS; Kater D. Hake, Cotton Incorporated; Johnie N. Jenkins, USDA-ARS-GPAR; Jack E. Jones, Jajo Genetics; Kathy S. Lawrence, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology; Jack C. McCarty, USDA-ARS-GPAR; Charles Overstreet, LSU AgCenter; Philip A. Roberts, University of California Department of Nematology; A. Forrest Robinson, Formerly with USDA-ARS; Roelof B. Sikkens, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology; James L. Starr, Formerly with Texas A&M University; David M. Stelly, Texas A&M University; Sally Stetina, USDA-ARS; Robert D. Stipanovic, USDA-ARS-CPRU; Peggy Thaxton Smith, Mississippi State University; Mauricio Ulloa, USDA-ARS-SPA-CSRL; Ted P. Wallace, Mississippi State University; Congli Wang, University of California - Riverside; David B. Weaver, Department of Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences; Martin Wubben, USDA-ARS; Jinfa Zhang, New Mexico State University