Wednesday, January 6, 2016: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Preservation Hall Studios 7 & 8 (New Orleans Marriott)
1:30 PM
Understanding the Cotton Fiber Elongation Process Using Short Fiber Mutants, the Ligon Lintless-1 (Li1) and -2 (Li2) as an Experiment Model System
Marina Naoumkina, Cotton Fiber Bioscience Unit, USDA ARS;
Gregory N Thyssen, Cotton Chemistry and Utilization Research Unit, USDA ARS;
David D Fang, Cotton Fiber Bioscience Unit, USDA ARS;
Rickie B Turley, Crop Genetics Research Unit, USDA ARS;
Doug J Hinchliffe, Cotton Chemistry and Utilization Research Unit, USDA ARS
2:45 PM
The Use of Disease Severity Variables in Predicting the Efficacy of FOV4 Resistance Selection
Nicholas E. Clark, University of California Cooperative Extension;
TariLee Frigulti, University of California Cooperative Extension;
Mauricio Ulloa, USDA-ARS;
Robert B Hutmacher, University of California Cooperative Extension;
Steven D. Wright, University of California Cooperative Extension;
Mark Keeley, University of California Cooperative Extension;
Robert L. Nichols, Cotton Incorporated