Beltwide Cotton Conferences
January 3-6, 2006
San Antonio, Texas

Cotton Disease Council

Timing of Herbicide Applications may Influence Efficacy of Aflatoxin Biocontrol
Nicholas Garber, Peter J. Cotty

Host Status of Noxious Weed Plants Associated with Gossypium hirisutum - Zea mays Rotation Systems to Rotylenchulus reniformis
Amy L. Dismukes, K. S. Lawrence, A. J. Price, G. W. Lawrence, R. Akridge

Concurrent Evaluation of Reniform Nematode and Early Season Insect Populations as Influenced by Enhanced Degradation of Aldicarb
Taylor V. Boozer, K. S. Lawrence, C. H. Burmester, Y. Feng, B. L. Freeman, E. Van Santan

Efficacy of Topsin M for Control of Hardlock
J. K. Croft, W. W. Bonnette Jr., J. D. Mueller

Efficacy of Nine Fungicides for Control of Hardlock
W. W. Bonnette Jr., J. K. Croft, J. D. Mueller

Stem Application of Fungicides for Control of Phymatotrichopsis (cotton) Root Rot
T. Isakeit, Jeff Stapper, R.R. Minzenmayer, Steve E. Sturtz, C. G. Sansone

Evaluation of Seed Treatments Vs. in-Furrow Treatments for Control of Nematodes and Insects
J. A. Blessitt, Gabe L. Sciumbato

HarpinEA Gene Transgenic Cotton Reduces Reproduction by Root Knot Nematodes
Ned M. French, T.L. Kirkpatrick, Zhongmin Wei

Greenhouse Evaluation of Experimental Harpin-Based Seed and Foliar Treatments on Root Knot Nematodes in Cotton
T.L. Kirkpatrick, K.S. Lawrence, G. W. Lawrence, J. D. Mueller, N. M. French

The Cotton Forage and some Aspects of Safe Usage of them in Modern Stock-breeding of Uzbekistan
Vladimir Ruzievich Haitov, Mahmud Karshievich Butaev, Toir Boymurodovich Boymurodov

Isolation of Phytoalexins from Indigenous Malvaceae Species Resistant to Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum
Olga Nikolaevna Veshkurova, Zamira Golubenko, Irina Arzanova, Egor Pshenichnov, Elvira Sultanova, Vyacheslav Uzbekov, Shavkat Salikhov, Robert D. Stipanovic

Comparison of Induced Peroxidase Activity in Cotton Plants Resistant and Susceptible to Verticillium dahliae
Zamira Golubenko, Robert D. Stipanovic, Alik Akhunov, Olga Veshkurova, Nigora Abdurashidova, Fazil Ibragimov, Yuliana Beresneva, Nigora Khashimova, Elmira Mustakimova, Alexei Bokov

Antifungal Peptides as Novel Tools to Enhance Resistance in Cotton
Egor Pshenichnov, Olga Veshkurova, Bahtiyer Salakhutdinov, Irina Arzanova, Elvira Sultanova, Vyacheslav Uzbekov, Shavkat Salikhov

Reniform Nematode Reproduction on Soybean Cultivars and Breeding Lines in 2005 Tests
Robert T. Robbins, Larry Rakes, Larry E. Jackson, E. E. Gbur, Donald G. Dombek, P. Chen, E. Shipe, Grover Shannon

Crop Rotation Influences Aflatoxin Producing Potential of Aspergillus Communities in South Texas
Ramón Jaime-García, Peter J. Cotty

Value of the use of In-furrow Fungicides for Cotton
M. L. Buchanan, Craig S. Rothrock, E. E. Gbur, P. D. Colyer, R. Kemerait, K. W. Seebold

Evaluation of Commercial and Experimental Seed Treatments on Cotton Stand in Alabama and Mississippi
Jacobo Cáceres, Kathy S. Lawrence, Gary W. Lawrence

New Fungicide Seed Treatments for Cotton from Bayer CropScience
Jennifer L. Riggs

Results from the National Cottonseed Treatment Program
S. A. Winters, Craig S. Rothrock

Effect of Planting Date and in-furrow Fungicide on Seedling Emergence, Growth, and Yield of Cotton in Virginia
P. M. Phipps, Joel Faircloth

The Effects of Crop Rotation with Wheat on the Incidence of Fusarium Wilt of Cotton in Australia
Stephen J. Allen

Cultivar susceptibility to Verticillium wilt on the High Plains of Texas
Terry A. Wheeler, Greta L. Schuster

Fusarium Wilt of Cotton in California: Characterization and PCR-based Cetection of Race 4
Mary E. Yang, R. Michael Davis, Robert B. Hutmacher

Frequency and Identification of Cottonseed-Rotting Bacteria from Cotton Fleahoppers
Alois A. Bell, Juan D. Lopez, Enrique Gino Medrano

Biocontrol of Aflatoxin producing Fungi in Cotton-Corn Rotations in South Texas
Peter J. Cotty

Delineation of Cematode Management Zones Based on Nematicide Response and Soil Electrical Conductivity
Charles Overstreet, Gene Burris, Don Cook, Edward C. McGawley, Boyd Padgett, Maurice Wolcott

Effects of Foliar Fungidide on Hardlock and Yield of Deltapine 555 BR and Paymaster 1218 BR
J. K. Croft, M. A. Jones, J. D. Mueller

Progress Report on Introgression of Reniform Nematode Resistance from G. longicalyx into Upland Cotton
A. Forest Robinson, Alois A. Bell, David Stelly, Nilesh Dighe, Monica Menz

Application of Pesticides to Control Fusarium Hardlock of Cotton in Florida
James J. Marois, D. J. Mailhot, D. L. Wright, P. J. Wiatrak

An Assessment of Thiophanate Methyl and Dicrotophos to Reduce Boll Damage and Rot to Stinkbugs in Georgia
R.C. Kemerait, S. N. Brown, Phillip M. Roberts, W. D. Shurley

Nematicide Trials against Reniform and Root-knot Nematode in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
Terry Erwin, Richard Letlow, Charles Overstreet, Maurice Wolcott

Efficacy of Avicta Complete Pak Against Nematodes and Seedling Diseases in Western Cotton
Alex Cochran, D. Long, T.H. Beckett, L.A. Payan, D. Belles

Evaluation Of Nematicides For Management of Southern Root-Knot Nematodes (Meloidogyne incognita)
D.E. McGriff, R.C. Kemerait, M.D. Von Waldner

Influence N-Hibit™ and ProAct™ on Nematodes in Field Cotton
N. M. French, T.L. Kirkpatrick, P. D. Colyer, J. L. Starr, K.S. Lawrence, J. R. Rich, G. W. Lawrence, J. D. Mueller

Summary of 2005 Testing with Vydate CLV Following Avicta Seed Treatment on Reniform and Root Knot Nematodes. G.G. Hammes, E.I. DuPont Crop Protection, Blairsville, Ga
Glenn Hammes, J. Dan Smith, Richard Edmund

Assessment of Seed Treatments for Management of Nematodes in Georgia
R. C. Kemerait, P. H. Jost, Richard F. Davis, S. N. Brown, T. W. Green, B. R. Mitchell, W. E. Harrsion, C. L. Brewer, R. G. McDaniel, D. G. Spaid, K. D. Mickler

Dynamics of Rotylenchulus reniformis Populations in Cotton Monoculture and in Crop Rotations with Corn and Rice
W.D. Kirkpatrick, R.J. Bateman, J.D. Barham, T.L. Kirkpatrick

Evaluation of Seed Treamtent, Foliar, and At Plant Nematicides for Management of Reniform Nematode in Southwest Georgia
Jack Royal, Glenn Hammes, Donna McMikle

Assessment of Field Tolerance to Root-knot Nematodes in Eight Cotton Cultivars
Gus Wilson, J.D. Barham, R.J. Bateman, T.L. Kirkpatrick

Impact of Early Seedling Infection by the Root-knot Nematode on Cotton Growth, Development, and Yield
J.A. Still, M.A.C. Penteado, T.L. Kirkpatrick

Introgression of Reniform Nematode Resistance into Upland Cotton
Carlos A. Avila, James McD. Stewart, Robert T. Robbins

2005 Cotton Disease Loss Estimate
Don Blasingame

Minutes from the 2006 Cotton Disease Council Meeting - San Antonio, TX
K. S. Lawrence

Nematode Sampling: the Limiting Factor to Variable Rate Application
Terry A. Wheeler

Using Geospatial Technologies to Better Manage Nematode Problems
Charlie Overstreet, Gene Burris, Don Cook, E.C. McGawley, Boyd Padgett, Maurice Wolcott

Population Estimation of the Reniform Nematode usingHyperspectral Reflectance Data and Applications to Variable Rate Nematicide Applications
Gary W. Lawrence, R. King, G.R. Ellis, R. Doshi, K. S. Lawrence, J. Caceres, S. Samson

Progress in Mapping Loci for Resistance to Root-knot Nematodes in an Interspecific Gossypium Population
Xinlian Shen, Peng Chee, Guillermo Van Becelaere, Richard Davis, O. Lloyd May

Molecular Genetic Dissection of Root -knot Nematode Resistance in Cotton
Jinfa Zhang, Chen Niu, Doug Hinchliffe, Carol Potenza, Champa Sengupta-Gopalan, Philip A. Robert, C. Wang, Roy Cantrell

Breeding for Bacterial Blight Resistance
Peggy Thaxton

Molecular Dissection of Disease Resistance
Robert J. Wright