Cotton Improvement Graduate Student Competition - Wednesday Early Morning

Wednesday, January 6, 2016: 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Preservation Hall Studios 7 & 8 (New Orleans Marriott)
8:30 AM
Tackling GE Adventitious Presence in Cotton Breeding Nurseries: Development of Reverse HT Trait Selection
Ryan Gregory, Texas Tech University; Jane Dever, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Glen Ritchie, Texas Tech University; Peter A. Dotray, Texas Tech University
8:45 AM
Heterologous Expression of Rice SUMO E3 Ligase (OsSIZ1) Enhances Drought and Heat Tolerance in Transgenic Cotton
Neelam Mishra, Texas Tech University; Li Sun, Texas Tech University; Xunlu Zhu, Texas Tech University; Hong Luo, Clemson University; John Burke, USDA-ARS; Paxton Payton, United States Department of Agriculture; Hong Zhang, Texas Tech University
9:00 AM
9:15 AM
Within Canopy Distribution of Cotton Yield and Quality
Matthew Indest, LSU Agricultural Center; Gerald Myers, LSU Agricultural Center; Bikash Bhandari, LSU Agricultural Center
9:30 AM
SNP Genotyping Using Kaspar Assays for Screening Upland Cotton Populations Containing Germplasm Introgressed from Gossypium Diploid Species
Ammani N. Kyanam, Texas A&M University; Amanda M. Hulse-Kemp, Texas A&M University; Fei Wang, Texas A&M University; David Stelly, Texas A&M University