Cotton Quality Measurements - Wednesday Late Afternoon

Wednesday, January 9, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:45 PM
Galerie 4 (New Orleans Marriott)
3:30 PM
HVI Elongation: Laying the Foundations for a New Fiber Quality Measurement
Brendan Kelly, Texas Tech University; Eric F. Hequet, Texas Tech University
3:45 PM
HVI Elongation Round Trial Results
Christopher D. Delhom, USDA-ARS Southern Regional Research Center; Eric F. Hequet, Texas Tech University; Brendan Kelly, Texas Tech University; Vikki B. Martin, Cotton Incorporated
4:00 PM
Analysis of Results from the National Cotton Variety Testing Program
Devron P. Thibodeaux, FIBER PHYSICS,LLC; Christopher D. Delhom, USDA-ARS Southern Regional Research Center; Michael K. Dowd, USDA-ARS Southern Regional Research Center
4:15 PM
Validation of Dual-Beard Fibrography for Cotton Length Distribution Measurement
Bugao Xu, University of North Texas; Jinfeng Zhou, University of North Texas; Jinliang Wei, University of North Texas
4:30 PM
Calibration of the High Volume Instruments with the Whole Fibrogram
Md Abu Sayeed, Texas Tech University; Brendan Kelly, Texas Tech University; Eric F. Hequet, Texas Tech University
4:45 PM
Preliminary Results of How Conventional and Experimental Lint Cleaning Processes Affect Fiber Length Uniformity Index
Carlos B. Armijo, USDA-ARS Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory; Christopher D. Delhom, USDA-ARS Southern Regional Research Center; Derek P. Whitelock, USDA-ARS Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory; Paul A. Funk, USDA-ARS Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory; John D. Wanjura, USDA-ARS Cotton Production and Processing Research Unit; Gregory A. Holt, USDA ARS; Ruixiu Sui, USDA-ARS; Vikki B. Martin, Cotton Incorporated; Neha Kothari, Cotton Incorporated
5:00 PM
Differentiation of Immature Fiber Mutant and Texas Marker-1 Cotton Fibers By the Use of ATR FT-IR Spectroscopy
Yongliang Liu, USDA-ARS; Hee Jin Kim, USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center
5:15 PM
Calculating Infrared Maturity Indexes for Cotton Using a Focal Plane Array Detector
Michael Santiago Cintron, USDA; Terri Von Hoven, USDA-ARS-SRRC