Wednesday, January 7, 2015: 8:00 AM-9:45 AM

Conf. Rooms 17 & 18 (Marriott Rivercenter Hotel)

Presiding:

Nino Brow

8:00 AM

Analysis of Lonren Reniform Nematode Resistance and "Stunting", By Marker-Assisted Dissection of an Alien R-Gene Chromosome Segment and Detection of Significant Fungal Interactions
Xiuting Zheng, Texas A&M University-Dept. Soil & Crop Sciences; K.A. Hoegenauer, TAMU; David M. Stelly, Texas A&M University-Dept. Soil & Crop Sciences; Jose Quintana, USDA-ARS-SPARC; Alois A Bell, USDA-ARS-CPRU; Robert L Nichols, Cotton Incorporated

8:15 AM

Insight into Key Control Points in Cotton Fiber Development through Comparative Transcriptomics and Metabolomics in Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense
John R. Tuttle, North Carolina State University; Candace H. Haigler, North Carolina State University

8:30 AM

RNAi Phytochrome Modification Effects on Cotton Fiber and Yield
Johnie N Jenkins, USDA-ARS; Sukumar Saha, USDA-ARS; Jack C McCarty, USDA-ARS; Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov, Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics; Zaberdast T. Buriev, Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics; Alan E. Pepper, Texas A & M University; Adbusattor Abdukarimov, Center of Genomic Technologies; Kater D Hake, Cotton Incorporated

8:45 AM

Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping of Cotton Physiological Traits in Response to Environmental Stress
William Duke Pauli, Cornell University; Mike A Gore, Cornell University; Pedro Andrade-Sanchez, University of Arizona; Andrew French, USDA-ARS; Kelly Thorp, USDA-ARS; Jeffrey White, USDA-ARS; Jesse Poland, USDA-ARS

Audio File Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

Ginning Efficiency in Upland Cotton - Research Progress
Efrem Bechere, USDA-ARS Crop Genetics Res. Unit; Clif Boykin, USDA-ARS Cotton Ginning Res. Unit; Bobby Hardin, USDA-ARS Cotton Ginning Res. Unit; David Fang, USDA-ARS Crop Genetics Res. Unit; Md Islam, USDA-ARS-SRRC

Audio File Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

A Cytogenetic Snapshot of the Cotton Genome -- 2.5 Billion Base Pairs of DNA
Bo Liu, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Amanda M. Hulse-Kemp, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; David M. Stelly, Texas A&M AgriLife Research

9:30 AM

The Effect of Different Hormone Concentrations on Induction of Callus Formation in Cotton Anthers
Medet Korkunc, Dicle University, Agricultural Vocational School; Secil Tasdemir, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences; Halil Tekerek, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences; Yuksel Bolek, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology; Nevzat Sevgin, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Research and Development Center for University-Industry-Public Relations (USKIM)

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