Beltwide Cotton Conferences
January 4-7, 2005
New Orleans, Louisiana
Cotton Improvement Conference
Ultra-Early Planting: Multiyear Results
John M. Green, F. Linwood Roberts
Fiber Quality and Gross Returns as Influenced by Blending Two Cotton Varieties
M.P. Harrison, N.W. Buehring, R.R. Dobbs, S.P. Nichols, C.E. Snipes
Study on Inheritance of Earliness and it's Relative Traits of Short-season Cotton and QTLs Mapping
Shuli Fan, Shuxun Yu, Meizhen Song
Analysis of Transgenic Cotton Engineered for Higher Drought-Tolerance in Greenhouse and in the Field
Hong Zhang, Cixin He, Guoxin Shen, Juqiang Yan, Dick Auld, Eduardo Blumwald
Re-Evaluation of Anthocyanless Traits in Gossypium hirsutum and G. barbadense
S. G. Harvey, C. L. Rhyne
Resistance Gene Analog (RGA) Markers are Mapped to Homeologous Chromosomes in Cultivated Tetraploid Cotton
Doug J. Hinchliffe, Yingzhi Lu, Carol Potenza, Champa Sengupta-Gopalan, Roy Cantrell, Jinfa Zhang
Comparative Microarray Analysis of Genes Differentially Expressed During Fiber Development of Upland and Pima Cotton
Jinfa Zhang, Thea A. Wilkins, R. G. Cantrell, Doug J. Hinchliffe
The Study on the Relation Between Abnormal Plantlets Morphogenesis and Endo-Hormones in Agrobacterium-mediated Transformation in Upland Cotton
Fuguang Li, Jianfei Qi, Chaojun Zhang, Chuanliang Liu, Lizhao Geng, Yufen Wang, Fenglian Li, Zhixia Wu
Effects of Mepiquat Pentaborate on Genotypes of Varying Maturity
Joseph T. Johnson
Genetic Improvement of New Mexico Acala Cotton Germplasm and Their Genetic Divergence
Jinfa Zhang, Y. Lu, H. Adragna, E Hughs, R. G. Cantrell
Identifying Discriminating Environments for Variety Selection in Louisiana
Sterling B. Blanche, Gerald O. Myers, W. D. Caldwell, James Hayes, J. I. Dickson
Notice of Release of RN96425, RN96527, and RN96625-1 Germplasm Lines of Cotton
C. G. Cook, A. F. Robinson, A. C. Bridges, W. B. Prince, J. A. Bautista
A Molecular Linkage Map and Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis Based on a Recombinant Inbred Line Population of Cotton
Jinfa Zhang, Y. Lu, R G Percy, Mauricio Ulloa, Guillermo Van Becelaere, Peng Chee, Roy Cantrell
Occurrence of (+)- and (-)-Gossypol in Seed from Wild Species of Gossypium
Robert Stipanovic, Lorraine Puckhaber, Ed Percival, Alois Bell
Breeding for Fusarium Wilt (Fov) Race 4 Resistance in Cotton
Mauricio Ulloa, Robert Hutmacher, R. Michael Davis, Richard Percy, Michael R. McGuire, Brian Marsh
Release of Tamcot 22, TAM 96D-18, TAM 96D-69s, TAM 98D-102 and TAM 98D-99ne
Peggy Thaxton, C. Wayne Smith, Roy Cantrell
Increasing Genetic Diversity in Germplasm Developed by Cotton Improvement Laboratory
Peggy Thaxton, C. Wayne Smith
Preliminary Study of Cotton Pyramiding Breeding by Molecular Marker Assisted Selection
Youlu Yuan, Yuzhen Shi, Aiying Liu, Wu Wang, Junwen Li, shufang wang, Tianzhen Zhang
Gene Action of AFIS Fiber Length in Upland Cotton
Chris Braden, C. W. Smith, Peggy Thaxton, Eric Hequet
Use of Drip Irrigation and Variety Evaluation in Cotton
Denise A McWilliams
Evaluation of the Use of Nitrophenols on Cotton
Denise A McWilliams
Evaluation of Fatty Acid Composition of Cotton Germplasm and Association with Cold Tolerance
Anna J. Hall, John R. Gannaway
A Century of Cotton Cultivars Grown in Varying Plant Spacings
Brian Schwartz, C. Wayne Smith, Peggy Thaxton
Transposon Mutagenesis for Cotton Functional Genomics
Kelly Asbill, Norma Trolinder, Harriet Bergeron, Jacy Lewis, Thea A Wilkins, Robert J Wright
Detection of Reniform Nematode Resistance in Primitive Gossypium hirsutum and G. barbadense During a Survey of the U.S. National Cotton Collection and Initiation of Research to Incorporate Resistance into Agronomic Cotton
A. Forest Robinson, A. C. Bridges, A. E. Percival, Osman A. Gutierrez, J. Macon LaFoe II, J. C. McCarty Jr., J. N. Jenkins
Cotton Variety Test Results for Louisiana, 2004
W. D. Caldwell, James A. Hayes, D. J. Boquet, E. Clawson, A. M. Stewart, J. I. Dickson
Performance of PhytoGen™ Cotton Varieties Expressing the WideStrike™ Insect Protection Trait when Grown in Commercial Type Strip Trials
R. A. Haygood, A. R. Parker, M. G. McPherson, J. S. Richburg, R. B. Lassiter, L. B. Braxton, R. M. Huckaba, M. M. Willrich, V. B. Langston, F. J . Haile, J. M. Richardson, G. D. Thompson, J. W. Pellow, J. P. Mueller
Evaluation of Regional Cotton Breeders Strains Grown in Root-Knot Infested Soils
James A. Hayes, W. D. Caldwell, P. D. Colyer, J. E. Jones
Physiological Response and Genetic Diversity of Tetraploid Cotton to Salt Stress
Sarah M. Higbie, James McD Stewart, Fei Wang, Tracy M Sterling, Jinfa Zhang
Discovery of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Selected Fiber Genes in Cultivated Tetraploid Cotton
Yingzhi Lu, J. Curtiss, Richard Percy, R. G. Cantrell, Jinfa Zhang
A Better Understanding of the Number of Fibers per Seed in Cotton
Leigh Dawdy Cranmer, John R. Gannaway, Randy Boman, Eric Hequet, Dick Auld, Randy Allen
Differential Watering Regimes as a Means to Evaluate Drought Tolerance Among Selected Cotton Lines
Kermit Price
Utilization of an Intraspecific Hybrid Population for Salt Tolerance Studies
Sarah M. Higbie, James McD Stewart, Thea Wilkins, Fei Wang, Jinfa Zhang
Effect of Varietal Blends on Fiber Quality and Lint Yield on Upland Cotton in West Texas
Aaron S Alexander, Efrem Bechere, Dick L. Auld
Interpreting Genotype X Environment Interactions for Yield and Fiber Quality in Cotton Performance Trials Conducted in South Carolina
B. Todd Campbell, Mike A. Jones
Development of a Screening Method for Drought Tolerance in Cotton Seedlings
Polly S. Longenberger, C. Wayne Smith, Peggy M. Thaxton
Stability of Yield and Fiber Quality in the North Delta: I. Evaluation of Methods
Ron McNew, Owen Gwathmey, Chism Craig, Bobby Phipps, Fred Bourland
Stability of Yield and Fiber Quality in the North Delta: II. Comparison of Varieties
Fred Bourland, Bobby Phipps, Chism Craig, Owen Gwathmey, Ron McNew
Cotton Varieties Planted in Arkansas, 1995-2004
Fred Bourland, Brandon Brown
From In-Silico Prediction to In-Vivo Validation: Isolating Candidate Genes to Genetically Engineer Cotton Fibers
Rodrigo Yelin, Sharon Ayal, Rafael Meissner, Gil Ronen, Dotan Dimet, Hagai Karchi
Using GGE Biplot to Identify Ideal Test Sites for Evaluating Fiber Quality
Dawn E. Fraser, Cynthia C. Green
Development of Breeding Populations In Cotton Through Random Mating
Osman A. Gutierrez, Johnie N. Jenkins, Jack C. McCarty, Daryl T. Bowman, Clarence E. Watson Jr.
Growth and Fruiting Habits of DP 555 BG/RR in Various Row Patterns and Plant Spacings
Herbert T. Miller IV, Johnie N. Jenkins, Jack C. McCarty
Yield and Fiber Quality of Transgenic vs. Conventional Cotton Varieties in the Arkansas Cotton Variety Tests, 1995-2004
Fred Bourland
Variation in Marginal Bract Trichomes of Cotton Cultivars
James M. Hornbeck, Fred Bourland
Lint Yield and Fiber Quality as a Function of Soil Moisture
Carol Mason, Jacy Lewis, Harriet Bergeron, Bay Nguyen, Dick L. Auld, John Gannaway, Robert J Wright
Mixed Model Based Conditional Analysis for Complex Traits
Jixiang Wu, Johnie N. Jenkins, Jack C. McCarty
Association between Pedigree- and RFLP-based Genetic Similarity Estimates
Guillermo Van Becelaere, Edward L. Lubbers, Peng W. Chee, Andrew H. Paterson
Large-Plot Replicated Dryland Systems Cultivar Trials in the Texas High Plains
Mark T. Stelter, Kent Lewis, Emilio Nino, Steve Young, Steve Davis, Tommy Doederlein, Mark Kelley, Randy Boman
Evaluation of Laboratory-Scale Spinning as a Prospective Tool for Cotton Breeders and Biotechnologists
Mourad Krifa, Eric Hequet, Dean Ethridge
Influence of Four Plant Populations on Boll Retention and Lint Yield on Four Commercial Cultivars
Liberty Cash III, Johnie N. Jenkins, Jack C. McCarty
Germplasm Evaluation of Cotton Accessions from the U.S. Cotton Germplasm Collection, USDA-ARS (Gossypium hirsutum L. landraces of Mexico)
James Frelichowski, Mauricio Ulloa, Albert Percival, James Stewart, Roy Cantrell
Osmotic Shock Induced Gene Expression in Cotton Roots
Bill L. Hendrix, James McD. Stewart, Thea A. Wilkins
Evaluation of Sucrose Phosphate Synthase Transgenic Cotton Lines under Field Conditions in West Texas
E. Margaret Hamill, C. Haigler, Zhang Deshui, Bir Singh, Scott Holaday, Sangjoon Hwang
Genetic Relationships of Historically Important Eastern US Upland Cotton
Edward L. Lubbers, Peng W. Chee, John R. Gannaway, O. Lloyd May, Andrew H. Paterson
The Crops Genetic Research Facility at The Texas A&M Research and Extension Center at Lubbock, TX Screens Wild Cotton Germplasm for Resistant Traits
M. D. Arnold, A. J. Hall, J. L. Mabry, M. A. Sheehan, J. R. Gannaway, T. A. Wheeler, L. W. Wells
Boll Samples, Grab Samples and Commercially Ginned Bales: a Texas High Plains Comparison
John R. Gannaway, Randy Boman, Mark Kelley, Eric Hequet, Robert Nichols
PCR Markers Based on Gene Introns
Pawan Kumar, Peng W. Chee
Resistance to Rhizoctonia solani and Alternaria alternata in Transgenic Cotton Expressing an Endochitinase Gene from Trichoderma virens
Keerti Rathore, Chandrakanth Emani, Ganesan Sunilkumar, Charles Kenerley
QTL Mapping of Cotton Yield Components
Gerald Myers, Baogong Jiang, Muhanad W. Akash
Regulation of Gene Expression in the Transition from Cell Elongation to Secondary Wall Formation in Cotton Fiber
Hee Jin Kim, Barbara A. Triplett
Expression of the Semigamy Mutation in Pima Cotton: A Cytological Evaluation
Kelly D. Biddle, George L. Hodnett, David M. Stelly
Breeding New FiberMax Varieties with Improved Lint Yield and Premium Fiber for the Southeastern USA
Jeff P. Klingenberg
Effects of VIP on Selected Cotton Insect Pests in Field and Laboratory Experiments
Johnie N. Jenkins, Jack C. McCarty
Improvement of Cotton Via Genetic Manipulation of the Chloroplast Genome
Shashi Kumar, Henry Daniell
How Prevalent is Interspecific Introgression in Upland Cotton?
P. W. Chee, E. L. Lubbers, O. L. May, A. H. Paterson
Theoretical Aspects of Improving Cotton Using Random Mating
Clay B. Cole, Daryl T. Bowman, Osman A. Gutierrez, Johnie N. Jenkins, Jack C. McCarty Jr., Clarence E. Watson
FiberMax® Cottonseed Performance with the LibertyLink® Herbicide Technology
Gary Henniger, Jane Dever, David Becker, Jeff Gwyn
A Comparison of Genome Mapping Tools in Plants
Steven M. Todd, Steven Hoffman, Wenxiang Gao, John Yu, Alan Pepper, John Ford, David M. Stelly
Fundamentals of FiberMax Breeding: Successfully Combining High Yield with Preferred Fiber Quality
Steve Hague
Correlation Study of Fiber Density in Cotton Between Wildtype and the N1 Naked-Seed Mutant
Christian Sayre Hans, Brian W. Gardunia, Eric Hequet, Z. Jeffrey Chen, David M. Stelly
Report of the Cotton Crop Germplasm Committee
Ted P. Wallace, Osman A. Gutierrez, Richard Percy, Peggy Thaxton, Mauricio Ulloa
Effects of Mild Acid, Heat and Salt on Glycan Oligomers from Developing Cotton Fibers
Allen K. Murray, Robert L. Nichols
Chromosomal Assignment of BAC-derived SSR Markers in Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
Yufang Guo, Sukumar Saha, John Z. Yu, Johnie N. Jenkins, R. J. Kohel, David M. Stelly
Resistance to Reniform Nematode in Exotic Cotton Lines
J. Macon LaFoe II, Johnie N. Jenkins, Jack C. McCarty Jr., Osman A. Gutierrez, A. Forest Robinson
The Effects of Random Mating on Introgression of Alleles from Gossypium tomentosum and G. mustelinum into G. hirsutum
Brian W. Gardunia, David M. Stelly, C. Wayne Smith, Peggy Thaxton, Monica Menz, Javier Betran
Integrated Genetic, Physical, and Comparative Mapping of the Cotton Genome
John Z. Yu, Russell J. Kohel, Zhanyou Xu, Jianmin Dong, Hongbin Zhang, David M. Stelly, Alan E. Pepper, Ping Cui, Steven M. Hoffman
Disease Resistance Conferred by the Expression of a Gene Encoding a Synthetic Peptide in Transgenic Cotton Plants
K. Rajasekaran, J.W. Cary, T.E. Cleveland
Identification of a New Monosome in Cotton: Chromosome 21
Dwaine A. Raska, David M. Stelly, M. Nurul Islam-Faridi, Michael E. Woods
Use of Multi-Trait Lateral Flow Test Strips for the Detection of Transgenic Cotton
Michael C. Brown, Timothy S. Lawruk, James W. Stave