ABSTRACT

Cotton plant monitoring is common practice in the US today. There are many components to plant monitoring depending on the management decision to be made. Grower management and environment both have influences on cotton plant performance. When conducting research trials, it is important to represent results in relation to the growing environment (both management and weather) experienced by the crop. Individual Internode Distance (IID) is the literal distance between successive nodes. It can be easily collected at the end of the season. Here we present general average values for different regions of the US cotton belt and show some specific examples of how IID documents either environmental differences or treatments differences in plant response.