Evaluation of Cotton for Resistance to Southwestern Cotton Rust (PUCCINIA CACABATA)

Thursday, January 5, 2017
Cumberland I-L (Hyatt Regency Dallas)
Friday, January 6, 2017
Cumberland I-L (Hyatt Regency Dallas)
Jinfa Zhang , New Mexico State University
Soum Sanogo , New Mexico State University
Richard Percy , USDA-ARS
Tom Wedegaertner , Cotton Incorporated
Don Jones , Cotton Incorporated
The Southwestern cotton rust disease is caused by the fungus (Puccinia cacabata), which causes a serious damage to cotton growth in the southwest and west region of the Cotton Belt once every 4 years. All the current commercial cultivars are susceptible except for a few obsolute breeding lines with an introgressed major resistance gene from another species. This poster will report research progress on identification of rust resistant genotypes through screening a large number of germplasm lines.