Beltwide Cotton Conferences
January 9-12, 2007
New Orleans, Louisiana

Cotton Improvement - Friday Afternoon Session

Organizer:

Dawn Fraser, Research, Delta & Pine Land Co., Hartsville, SC

Presiding:

Dawn E. Fraser and Cynthia C. Green, Delta and Pine Land Company, Hartsville, SC

Molecular Mapping of Restorer Gene, Rf2 and RFLP Analysis of MtDNA in CMS-D8 Cotton

Fei Wang¹, Mary O'Connell¹, James Stewart² and Jinfa Zhang¹, (1)New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, (2)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

Survey of 42,000 Gossypium hirsutum cv. Maxxa BAC-End Sequences and Frequency, Type, and Annotation of BAC-derived SSRs

Michael B. Palmer¹, James Frelichowski², Dorrie Main¹, Mauricio Ulloa³, Roy Cantrell⁴, Stephen Ficklin¹ and Jeffrey P. Tomkins¹, (1)Clemson University, Clemson, SC, (2)USDA-ARS, Shafter, CA, (3)USDA-ARS, WICS Res. Unit, Cotton Enhancement Program, Shafter, CA, (4)Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC

Identification of an Apoplastic Cu/Zn Superoxide Dismutase in Developing Cotton Fibers

Hee Jin Kim¹, Naohiro Kato², Sunran Kim³ and Barbara A. Triplett³, (1)University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, (2)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, (3)USDA-ARS, New Orleans, LA

Analysis of Semigamous Cotton Using Stain-Cleared Nucelli

George L. Hodnett, College Station, TX and David Stelly, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Variety Performance Comparisons across Nematode Populations

Ken E. Lege, Delta and Pine Land Company, Piedmont, AL, David W. Albers, Delta and Pine Land Company, Scott, MS, Tom R. Speed, Delta and Pine Land Company, Lubbock, TX, James C. Bosch, Delta and Pine Land Company, Victoria, TX and Thomas A. Kerby, Delta and Pine Land Company, West Jordan, UT

Performance of Cotton Lines in a Root-knot Nematode Infested Field

Mustafa McPherson, Frank Bordelon and John Pellow, Phytogen Seed Co. / Dow AgroSciences, LLC, Leland, MS

A Glimpse into the Cotton Genome

Brian Scheffler, USDA-ARS-CGRU, Stoneville, MS

Novel Genes for Improving Fiber Quality Validated Through Tomato Seed Hair as a Unique Model System

Hagai Karchi, Sharon Ayal, Laura Bakerman, Evgenia Gold and Assaf Oron, Evogene, Rehovot, Israel

Confirmation of a Fiber Length QTL on Chromosome 1 of Cotton

Peng W. Chee¹, Xinlian Shen¹, Edward Lubbers¹ and Andrew H. Paterson², (1)University of Georgia - Tifton campus, Tifton, GA, (2)University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Determination of Chromosome Effects for Cotton Cultivars Crossed with Chromosome Substitution Lines and TM-1

Jixiang Wu, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, Johnie N. Jenkins, USDA-ARS-GAPARU, Mississippi State, MS, Jack C. McCarty, USDA-ARS, Mississippi State, MS, Sukumar Saha, USDA-ARS, Crop Science Research Laboratory, Mississippi State, MS and Ted P. Wallace, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

Engineering of a Cotton Plant with Normal Levels of Protective Terpenoids but with Significant Reduction in the Seed-gossypol: Overcoming the Major Weakness of Glandless Cotton

Keerti S. Rathore¹, Ganesan Sunilkumar¹, Campbell M. LeAnne¹, Lorraine S. Puckhaber² and Robert D. Stipanovic², (1)Institute for Plant Genomics & Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, (2)USDA-ARS-SPARC, College Station, TX

Evaluation of Seed Technologies and Production Systems

D.E. McGriff, University of Georgia Extension Service, Douglas, GA, M.D. Von Waldner, University of Georgia Extension Service, Pearson, GA and P. H. Jost, University of Georgia, Statesboro, GA

Low Seed Gossypol Content in Glanded G. hirsutum Lines

Gabriela Romano and Jodi Scheffler, USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS

Low Gossypol Doesn't Always Mean Low Yield and Low Quality

Jodi Scheffler¹, Michael K. Dowd² and Gabriela Romano¹, (1)USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS, (2)USDA-ARS, New Orleans, LA

Sponsor: Cotton Improvement Conference