Fiber quality parameters and within-boll yield components of Gossypium arboreum L. putative mutant lines /

(HVI) fiber analysis. Fiber quality parameters included:

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Main Author: Naivar, Kevin Scott
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1996.
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Summary:(HVI) fiber analysis. Fiber quality parameters included:
(seed index). Fiber samples of each M2 row were forwarded
collected included weight of seed cotton/M2 row, seed cotton
considered. Given this criteria, 26 putative mutant lines
cotton per seed (SC/S), lint per seed (L/S), and fibers per
despite many attempts to find the precursors and enzymes
Development in Lubbock, Texas for high volume instrument
deviation units from the mean value of the population being
diepoxybutane (DEB) and planted as the MI generation in the
diploid cultivar should be directly applicable to
diploid Gossypium species that produces spinnable fibers and
field at the Texas A&M University Research Farm, College
for any component was less than or greater than 3 standard
for cellulose fiber production in cotton. The biosynthetic
Gossypium arboreum L. in order to identify genes that code
Gossypium arboreum seed (MO) were chemically treated with
harvested from individual plants. Seed (M2) from each plant
included: lint percentage (LP), seeds per boll (S/BOLL), seed
individuals from less than or equal to 1% of the population
involved. If these pathways were identified then they could
is grown commercially in parts of India today. Understanding
M2 progeny were evaluated for variation in fiber quality and
micronaire, and uniformity index. Lint yield components,
mM, 7.4 MM, and 10.0 mM. Flowers were forced to self
of cotton fibers. Gossypium arboreum, n=13, 2n=26, is a
of G. arboreum.
pathways to fiber cellulose production are still not known
pollinate on the MI plants and the resulting bolls were hand
provide useful tools for manipulating the amount and quality
row were ginned and the seeds were acid delinted. Data
rows in 1995. Boll samples harvested from each M2 progeny
seed (F/S). Although a completely fiberless M2 plant, which
Station, Texas in 1994. Three DEB treatments were used; 5.0
the complex biochemical pathways of fiber production in this
This study was initiated to develop a fiberless mutant of
to determine if these are true mutants or simply represent
to the International Center for Textile Research and
U.S., G. hirsutum L. and G. barbadense L., x=13, n=26, 2n=52.
understanding fiber production in the cultivars grown in the
upper half mean fiber length (UBM), fiber bundle strength,
using the ontogenetic yield model proposed by Worley et al.
was our original goal, was not found among the 1995 progeny,
weight/row, lint weight/row, and the weight of 100 fuzzy seed
were classed as a putative mutant if it's individual value
were identified and additional evaluations will be necessary
were maintained as independent lines and planted into progeny
within-boll yield components. M2 lines within each treatment
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