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Title: NEW COTTON SEEDS FOR A NEW CENTURY

Author
item May Iii, Oscar

Submitted to: International Botanical Congress
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/22/1999
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Production of transgenic cotton cultivars has reached the extent of about 50% of the 1999 USA cottonseed market. Broad acceptance of transgenic cultivars will facilitate the next generation of cultivars introgressed with new input as well as output traits. This presentation will focus on a few possibilities for transgenic traits, plus experience gained from breeding transgenic cotton. Herbicide and insect tolerance input traits will be discussed in light of current successes and future needs. Fiber properties such as strength and length uniformity as possible output traits will be assessed in relation to needs of a yarn and textile manufacturing industry in the process of technological change. Finally, three years of experience with breeding transgenic cotton populations will be examined. The transgenic populations are descendent from the original R0 plant as well as those developed through forward and backcrossing strategies.