Beltwide Cotton Conferences
January 6-8, 2014
New Orleans, LA

Cotton Improvement Posters
Graduate students present at posters between 8:00-9:00 AM Tuesday, January 7; authors present at posters between 10:00-10:30 AM Wednesday, January 8.

Identification of Commercial Cultivars for the Texas High Plains with Drought Tolerance or Improved Response to Water Deficits
Travis Witt1, Mauricio Ulloa2, John J. Burke2, Glen L. Ritchie1, Loren Davis1 and Dick L. Auld1, (1)Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, (2)USDA-ARS-SPA-CSRL, Lubbock, TX

Identification of Elite Upland Germplasm with Tolerance to Reduced Irrigation Rates from the RBTN
Bralie R. Hendon1, Mauricio Ulloa2, John J. Burke2, Glen L. Ritchie1, Robert Kelby Imel1 and Dick L. Auld1, (1)Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, (2)USDA-ARS-SPA-CSRL, Lubbock, TX

Length of Fiber Elongation Period in Extra Long Staple Upland Cotton Genotypes Compared with Tamcot 73
Ricardo Galvão de Freitas and Wayne Smith, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Preliminary Screening of Gossypium SPP. Germplasm Lines Against Different Salt Concentrations
Bikash Bhandari and Gerald O. Myers, LSU AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA

Screening Strategy for Maintaining Purity and Seed Quality in Cotton Breeding Nurseries
Ryan Allen Gregory, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX and Jane K. Dever, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Lubbock, TX

Field Evaluation of Thrips Resistance in Glandless and Glanded Cotton
Jinfa Zhang, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, Tom Wedegaertner, Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC and S. Ed. Hughs, USDA-ARS Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory, Mesilla Park, NM

Development of New Glandless Cotton Germplasm
Jinfa Zhang, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, Tom Wedegaertner, Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC and S. Ed. Hughs, USDA-ARS Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory, Mesilla Park, NM

Cotton Germplasm Lines Released by the University of Arkansas in 2013
Fred M. Bourland, University of Arkansas NEREC, Keiser, AR and Don C. Jones, Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC

Chemically Induced Mutation to Improve Fiber Traits in Upland Cotton
Efrem Bechere, USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS

Evaluation of Cotton Cultivars for Differential Responses to Salinity Stress
Heather D. Flippin1, Jane K. Dever1, Monica Sheehan1, Valerie Morgan1 and Mark S. Kelley2, (1)Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Lubbock, TX, (2)Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Lubbock, TX

Relationships Among Oil Content, Protein Content and Seed Size of Gossypium Accessions in the U.S. National Cotton Germplasm Collection
Lori Hinze1, Patrick Horn2, Neha Kothari3, Jane K. Dever4, James Frelichowski1, Kent D. Chapman2 and Richard Percy1, (1)USDA-ARS-SPARC, College Station, TX, (2)University of North Texas, Denton, TX, (3)Texas A&M AgriLife Research, College Station, TX, (4)Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Lubbock, TX

Mapping Heterotic Loci for Yield and Agronomic Traits Using Chromosome Segment Introgression Lines in Cotton
Xianliang Song1, Xian Guo2, Yuping Guo2, Xuezhen Sun2, David D Fang1 and Tianzhen Zhang3, (1)USDA-ARS-SRRC, New Orleans, LA, (2)Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, China, (3)National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing, China
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