Advanced cotton strains selected on the basis of high flower-bud glandulosity and field resistance to Heliothis spp. were tested at three locations in Louisiana. All seventeen advanced strains had highly significantly fewer Heliothis damaged fruit as well as significantly to highly significantly fewer live Heliothis larvae per fruit than the commercial cultivar Stoneville 213 which was used as an experimental check. Several of the more Heliothis resistant strains had lint yields comparble to or significantly higher than Stoneville 213 at two locations.