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... Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) is one of the most devastating disease in areas where sweet orange or grapefruit are budded onto sour orange rootstock. In Texas, the citrus industry is located in the far south of the state in a high pH and calcareous soils region, which makes sour orange the best rootstock option. The Texas industry has been under a threat since the arrival in Florida and Mexico of th ...
... Chlorophyll fluorescence (CF) is one tool used by researchers to quantify plant water status during periods of limited water availability. The research reported herein was designed to evaluate a CF-based protocol as a tool for use in cotton, Gossypium spp. breeding programs for the identification of drought tolerant genotypes. Twenty genotypes were selected to represent diverse and distinct US ger ...
... Collection of wild species is critical to increase crop germplasm gene pools. Gaura coccinea has been identified as an important source of cold tolerance (winter hardiness) for hybridization with non-cold tolerant G. lindheimeri. Identification of species in the wild is often complicated by diagnostic, morphological characteristics that may not be present at the time of collection. G. drummondii, ...
... Vernalization and photoperiodism are two important physiological processes related to yield of many cool-season annual crops. The flowering response of 20 flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) genotypes to two vernalization regimes (vernalized and unvernalized) and two photoperiod treatments (10 and 14 h) was evaluated in a growth chamber study in 2010 and 2011. The results suggest that photoperiod, verna ...
Sukumar Saha; David M. Stelly; Abdusalom K. Makamov; Mirzakamol S. Ayubov; Dwaine Raska; Osman A. Gutiérrez; Shivapriya Manchali; Johnie N. Jenkins; Dewayne Deng; Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov
... The primary gene pool for tetraploid cotton species includes Gossypium hirsutum L., as well as the other four 2n = 52 species of Gossypium (G. barbadense, G. mustellinum, G. tomentosum and G. darwinii). To help overcome barriers to effective introgression, we have developed a number of alien chromosome substitution (CS) lines from G. barbadense, G. mustellinum and G. tomentosum, most of which are ...
... Host plant resistance, in integrated systems, could be a critical tool for reducing thrips damage to seedling cotton. Plant breeders, however, need information regarding the genetic nature of resistance for effective and efficient introgression into breeding material. Trials were conducted in 2011–2014 at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Lubbock to elucidate the genetic natu ...
... The infection of Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) by the root parasite Rotylenchulus reniformis Linford & Oliveira, the reniform nematode, results in massive annual yield losses throughout the southeastern United States and portions of Texas. Resistance to reniform nematode was identified in the photoperiodic G. barbadense L. accession GB713. Previous research identified three quantitative tr ...
... The Texas High Plains often has extended periods between rainfall events, which can lead to a reduction in the yield and fiber quality of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). It is known that cultivated cotton suffers from low levels of genetic diversity due to the over-use in breeding of similar gene pools, which may hinder breeding for drought tolerance. In this study, for the first time the novel va ...
Triticum aestivum; breeding programs; germplasm; hard red winter wheat; variety trials; Texas
Abstract:
... Although plant breeding programs can vary in operations and objectives, all must contain high performing germplasm and diverse testing environments. Additionally, these elements must be well understood in order for the program to be successful. The purpose of this research was to investigate Texas A&M (TAM) hard red winter wheat variety trial locations and germplasm. The objective of this study wa ...
... Hybrid wheat breeding programs need to use chemical hybridizing agents for seed production due to its simplicity. Alternative methods such as cytoplasmic systems or hand pollinations restrict genetic combinations or seed production which limits testing experimental hybrids in large-scale multi-environment trials (METs). Using F₂ seed instead of F₁ can allow programs to test hybrid cross combinatio ...
Brijesh Angira; Yang Zhang; Yadong Zhang; Chantel F. Scheuring; Laura Masor; Julie Coleman; Bir B. Singh; Hong-Bin Zhang; Dirk B. Hays; Meiping Zhang; Manzeal Khanal; Edgar Correa; Bed Prakash Bhatta; Subas Malla
... Cowpea is an important pulse crop in the world. As with other leguminous crops, cowpea shows severe leaf chlorosis, when grown in calcareous soil. This study aimed to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling iron deficiency chlorosis (qIDC) using a recombinant inbred line (F₇:₈) biparental mapping population derived from IDC tolerant parent, IT98K-476-8, and IDC susceptible parent, Gold ...