Cotton Improvement - Wednesday Early Morning

Wednesday, January 8, 2014: 8:15 AM-10:00 AM
Preservation Hall Studios 7 & 8 (New Orleans Marriott)
Presiding:
Pawan Kumar
8:15 AM
New Data and Functionality in Cottongen: An Integrated Genomics, Genetics and Breeding Database for the Cotton Research Community
Jing Yu, Washington State University; Sook Jung, Washington State University; Chun-Huai Cheng, Washington State University; Stephen Ficklin, Washington State University; Taein Lee, Washington State University; Ping Zheng, Washington State University; Don C. Jones, Cotton Incorporated; Richard Percy, USDA-ARS-SPARC; Dorrie Main, Washington State University
8:30 AM
Integrated Approach to Breeding for Enhanced Utilization of West Texas Cotton
Carol M. Kelly, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Jane K. Dever, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Eric F. Hequet, Texas Tech University
8:45 AM
High-Throughput Phenotyping of Drought-Adaptive Traits in Cotton
Don C. Jones, Cotton Incorporated; Mike A. Gore, Cornell University; Pedro A. Sanchez, University of Arizona; David D. Fang, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Andrew French, USDA-ARS; Doug Hunsaker, USDA-ARS; Jeffrey White, USDA-ARS; Jesse Poland, USDA-ARS
9:00 AM
High Throughput Canopy Mapping of Cotton with LIDAR
Andrew French, USDA-ARS; Mike A. Gore, Cornell University; Bob Strand, USDA-ARS; Kelvin Rodriguez, USDA-ARS; Muhammad Faisal Bilal, Visiting Scientist, USDA-ARS; Pedro Andrade-Sanchez, University of Arizona
9:15 AM
Mining Cotton Germplasm Resources to Fight Cotton Leaf Curl Virus
Jodi Scheffler, USDA-ARS; James Frelichowski, USDA-ARS-SPARC; Janna Love, USDA-ARS; Wesley Malloy, National Cotton Council
9:30 AM
A Major Locus for Fusarium Wilt Race 4 Resistance Identified in Gossypium Hirsutum Acala NemX Using an Interspecific Progeny with G. barbadense
Congli Wang, NIGA-CAS; Mauricio Ulloa, USDA-ARS-SPA-CSRL; Philip A. Roberts, University of California Department of Nematology
9:45 AM
Characterization of an Abscisic Acid Specific Glycosyltransferase from Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
Marina Naoumkina, USDA-ARS SRRC; Matthew K Gilbert, USDA-ARS SRRC; John M Bland, USDA-ARS SRRC; Jay M Shockey, USDA-ARS SRRC; Heping Cao, USDA-ARS SRRC; Doug J Hinchliffe, USDA-ARS SRRC; David D Fang, USDA-ARS SRRC