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1989

Regional Cotton Fusarium
Wilt

Report
Agronomy and Soils Departmental Series No. 144 March 1990 Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station Aubunl University Lowell T. Frobish, Director Auburn University, Alabama

1989 REGIONAL COITON FUSARIUM WILT REPORT 1 W.C. Johnson 2

Cotton cultivars and elite breeding lines submitted

by 26 cooperators

were evaluated for fusairum wilt resistance under field conditions at the Plant Breeding Unit, Tallassee, Alabama. These entries were grown on an

Independence loamy fine sand highly infested with both the fusarium wilt fungus (Fusarium oxysporum) Schlect. f. vasinfectum [Atk.] Snyd. & Hans.) and root-knot nematodes (Meloido yne spp.). Plots were 40-inch-wide bedded rows, 30 feet in length, separated by 6foot alleys. Four replications of the test entries and checks, arranged in a Both susceptible (Rowden) and resistant (McNair Rcwden was planted in row 5 and every

block design, were evaluated.

235) cultivars were included as checks.

tenth row thereafter (15, 25,...,285) and McNair 235 in row 10 and every tenth row thereafter (20, 30,... 11.
,280)

throughout the test.

Plots were planted May

Initial plant counts were made on June 29.

Wilted plants were also

counted and removed on that date.

Later, wilted plants were counted and The remaining live

removed on July 17, July 31, August 14, and August 29. plants were also counted and recorded on August 30.

Percent wilted plants

were then determined and mean wilting for a given entry calculated.

kInis report is a joint contribution between USDA-ARS, Crop Science Research Laboratory, Mississippi State, Mississippi, and the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University, Alabama.
2 Professor

of Agronomy and Soils

Average wilting percentages of the susceptible Rowden were 81.6, 77.8, 88.4, and 89.1 for the four replications. Wilt percentages for the resistant

check, McNair 235, were 23.0, 18.5, 31.0, and 42.5 for the four replications. Critical evaluation of a given entry should be made relative to the checks closest to the entry within each replication. Evaluation of breeding progress

or evaluation of entries over years should be made only between the relative value of this entry and that of the closest susceptible check rows for each year. Wilt resistance of McNair 235 has become erratic and in general is less than in former years. Consideration is being given to selecting another

variety as the resistant check that would at least be more consistent. Entries submitted by W.C. Johnson are commonly grown cultivars or advanced commercial materials. Thus, these entries are listed by name. Entries Additional

submitted by other cooperators are listed by their coded numbers.

information regarding the genetic background of a specific coded entry should be obtained from the named cooperator.

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ACIQ40W1LEDGM4ENT The author expresses appreciation to A. J. Kappelman, Jr., retired, for advice and technical assistance in corducting the test ard preparing this report.

Information containe herein is available to all persons without regard to race, color, sex, or national origin.

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1989 FUSARIUM WILT TEST PLANT BREEDING UNIT, TALLASSEE, Test entry designation 1 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 2 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 3 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030

ALABAMA

Percent wilt by replication 3 4 Mean 1 2 Box 157, Scott, 37 29 70 100 100 16 80 56 3 35 3 31 43 55 96 12 24 13 8 31 MS 38772 26 31 46 80 83 15 47 22 7 32 Leland, 7 71 60 20 90 12 11 6 41 25 MS

Keith R. Jones, DPL, P. O. DPL 1................. DPL 2................. DPL 3................. DPL 4................. ROWDEN................ DPL 5..0............ DPL 6................. DPL 7................. DPL 9.................. McNAIR 235............ 42 32 33 64 37 12 11 9 1 1

22 31 38 100 99 19 73 12 16 61 St., 7 85 66 28 77 16 7. 0 73 35

John Green, Seed Source Inc., 106 E. 4th 38756 SS-1 .. 0*......* ........ 2 15 5 SS-2.................. 26 100 73 SS-3 ................ . 22 88 66 SS-4.................. 5 25 28 ROWDEN................ 83 100 100 SS-5.................. 7 16 14 SS-6................. 3 24 11 SS-7.................. 4 14 7 SS-8-.................. 6 78 6 McNAIR 235............ 10 44 12

Richard Sheetz, Cargill Hybrid Seed, Box 2, Aiken, TX 79221
1.................

ROWDEN................

McNAIR 235............
CcCc-7

8 13 4 35 80 13 35 26 10 12
1

9 34 44 95 95 49 26 63 13 10

2 6 3 47 61 21 16 25 1 7

35 2 43 62 59 41 38 33 9 7

14 14 24 60 74 31 29 38 8 9

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1989 FUSARIUM WILT TEST PLANT BREEDING UNIT, TALLASSEE, ALABAMA Test entry designation 4 Bobby Phipps, 79408
1.................e

Percent wilt by replication Mean 4 3 2 1 GroAgri Seed Co., P.O. Box 1656, Lubbock TX

031

g

o

7

11
17 34
7

1

2

5

032 033
034

2..................... 3.....................
4....................

4 16
13

9 41
28

4 22
5

8 28
13

035 036
037 038 039

ROWDEN................ 82 5 ..................... 52 6..................... 7
7..................... 8..................... 8 3

94 6
4 23 10

100 16
6 31 20

73 14
25 16
*11

87 22
10 20 11

040 5 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 6. 051
052

McNAIR 235............

11

19

46

51 .

32

Mason Hawkins, Ranger Seed Co., Box 1288, Tahoka, TX 79373 RSC-1........... ...... RSC-2................ RSC-3................. RSC-4................. ROWDEN.............,, RSC-5.................. RSC-6................. RSC-7................ RSC-8....C............ Mc NAIR 235........... 17 12 5 17 54 30 19 10 10 13 15 5 10 15 85 34 66 9 4 6 25 17 3 29 79 0 32 22 13 22 20 22 28 65 89 80 83 56 27 60 19 14 12 32 77 36 50 24 14 25 P.O. Box 167,

Lynn McDonald, Stoneville Stoneville, MS 38776 Stl1..................10
St 2.................. 5

Pedigreed Seed Co.,

8
35

32
48

73
100

31
47

053 054 055

St 3.................. St 4.................. ROWDEN.............

14 5 73

28 15 76

63 54 84

84 84 100

47 40 83

056 057 058 059 060

St 5.................. St 6.................. St 7.................. St 8.................. McNAIR 235............

11 74 10 16 8

8 12 32 6 9

62 50 79 10 16

68 95 87 75 47

37 58 52 27 20

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1989 FUSARIUM WILTTEST PLANT BREEDING UNIT, TALLASSEE, ALABAMA Test entry designation 7 Percent wilt by replication Mean 4 3 2 1

C. C. Green, Cotton Production Res. Unit,P.O. Box 2131, FLorence, SC 29503 1..................... 9 2..................... 26 3............ ......... 18
4....................... 48 ROWDEN................ 50 37 29 89 41

061

062
063 064 065

7
6 77 49

4
26 90 90

64
76 96 98

25
32 78 72

066 067 068
069

5..................... 49 6..................... 64 7......0............... 69
8.... ....
...... .. . ....

21 10 25
3

46 48 35
24

89 84 76
93

51 52 51
31

3

070 8 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 9

McNAIR 235............

5

21

7

38

18

Fred Bourland, Dept.of Agron., Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701 Pl22 . FB-2*................. 8 FB-3.................. 33 FB-4................. 32 RdWDEN................100 FB-5................. 6 FB-6.................. 38 FB-7.................. 73 FB-8.................. 95 McNAIR 235............ 16 75 15 30 53 98 46 77 0 3192 42 7 6 10 85 3 10 26 4 5 89 53 40 47 88 14 44 16 17 31 57 21 27 36 93 17 42 29 37 36

Peggy M. Thaxton, Dept. of Soil & Crop Sci., Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX 77843-2132 PMT-1...... 54 PMT-20...........2.... 15 PMT33............ 48 PMT-4.T.............. 10 ROWDEN................076 PMT55................ 25
PMT-6.........
........

081 082 083 084 085 086
087

84 51 24 39 98 17
8

41 27 25 2 79 8
33

39 23 12 24 41 14
3

54 29 27 19 74 16
12

3

088 089 090

P7....... PMT..... McNAIR 2

3

7.. 39 8... 36 5...... 23

49 78 58

19 15 16

8 1 8

29 32 26

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1989 FUSARIUM WILTTEST PLANT BREEDING UNIT, TALLASSEE, ALABAMA Test entry designation 10 091 092 093
094

Percent wilt by replication Mean 4 3 2 1

Kamal M. El-Zik, Dept. of Soil & Crop Sci., Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX 77943-2132 25 KME-1............. 35 KME-20................ 8 KME-3.................
KME-4 ................. 39

46 53 2
44

9 76 11
19

20 36 26
7

25 50 12
27

095 096 097 098 099 100 11 101
102

ROWDEN................ KME-5................. KME-6 ................. KME-7............... KME-8................. McNAIR 235............

40 21 13 14 16 9

86 72 24 60 25 7

76 32 13 14 59 23

83 3 11 33 25 38

71 32 15 30 31 19

W. P. Sappenfield, P.O. Box 160, Portageville, MO 63873 1....................
2....................

2
2

2
0

22
25

3
22

7
12

103
104

3.....................
4..................

14
3

10
2

15
3

11
3

12
3

105
106 107

ROWDEN.............
5..................... 6....................

82
1

39
1

78
4 9

98
6 1

74
3 4

108
109

7

1 3 ....................

4 4
1 1

15
0

2
5

6
4

8...................

1

110 111112
113
114

McNAIR 235............ 9 .......... O0 9.......... 10.................... 4
110..................
12..................

11 3
7
1

19 11
13
7

12 2
13
7

13 2 5
12
6

13
7

115
116

ROWDEN................
13................... 14 4................... 15..................... 16....................

66
10

81
1

72
1

99
5

80
5

117 118 119

17 7 23

0 4 9

3 5 4

24 28 67

12 11 25

120

McNAIR 235............

31

5

3

29

17

12 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128

Rex Dunn, Dunn Seed Farms Inc., Rt. 4, Box 431, Seminole, TX, 79360 1...................17 47 2........... 3........... 15 17 4........... RO W D EN........ 94 5...................5 6........... 12 3 7........... -99 64 11 9 68 1 7 3 17 60 18 39 95 82 13 10 34 99 97 100 100 72 88 54 19 68 35 41 89 40 30 18

1989 FUSARIUM WILT1TEST PLANT BREEDING UNIT, TALLASSEE, ALABAMA Test entry designation 13 Percent wilt by replication Mean 4 3 2 1

Gary L. Rea, Big Crop Seed Inc., P.O. Box 5899, Lubbock, TX, 79417 Jerez.................21 McNAIR 235............ 28 14 4 50 35 100 83 46 38

129 130 14

Steve Stringer, Univ. of Arkansas, P.O. Box 789, Marianna, AR, 72360 7 SS-1.................. SS-2.................. 36 4 SS-3.................. SS-4.................. 83 ROWDEN................100 SS-5................. 54 SS-6.................. 41 SS-7..................79 SS-8.................. 91 McNAIR 235............ 45 3
6

131
132

0
53

93
100

26
49

133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 15 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148
149

8 10 71 20 11 0 4 3

16 86 77 36 23 31 29 14

63 92 96 81 98 96 89 73

23 68 86 48 43 .52 53 34

David Howle, Northrup King Seed, Rt. MS, 38756 KC-1.................. KC-2................ KC-3.................. KC-4................. ROWDEN................ KC-5.................. KC-6.................. KC-7..................
KC-8..................

1, Box 40, Leland, 100 34 42 77 100 65 55 56
71

58 16 21 31 89 74 76 55
75

19 9 8 10 82 32 78 29
44

90 9 21 19 99 17 17 12
24

67 17 23 34 92 47 56 38
53

150 16

McNAIR 235............ 92

4

45

21

40

C. Wayne Smith, Dept. of Soil & Crop Sci., Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX 77843 CIL 1................. CIL 2.................. CIL 3................. CIL 4................. ROWDEN................ CIL 5................. CIL 6................. CIL 7................. CIL 8................. McNAIR 235............ 73 67 56 41 95 31 30 36 36 6
10-

151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160

50 88 71 80 100 92 44 56 86 42

30 57 11 65 99 12 42 32 73 27

39 57 55 52 68 52 30 41 13 13

48 67 48
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90 47 36 41 52 22

1989 FUSARIUM WILTTEST PLANT BREEDING UNIT, TALLASSEE, ALABAMA Test entry designation 17 Percent wilt byreplication Mean 4 3 2 1

Laval M. Verhalan, Dept. of Agron., Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, Ok 74078 OKLA-10...............
OKLA-2................

161
162

43
11

65
36

25
14

4
6

34
17

163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 18 171 172 173
174

OKLA-3................ OKLA-4................ ROWDEN.................. OKLAL-5............... OKLA-6................ OKLA-7 ................ OKLA-8................ McNAIR 235............

48 12 67 37 17 33 50 23

83 31 71 28 17 30 17 17

9 50 67 57 12 37 17 44

34 51 90 37 49 36 35 18

44 36 74 40 24 34 30 26 Mississippi 14 13 18
8

R. L. Shepherd, CSRS, USDA-ARS, P.O. Box 5367, State, MS 39762 1.a..................... 17 2..................... 26 12 3e....................
4.................. 3

10 7 7
1

175 176
177
178

ROWDEN................ 90 9 5.0....................
6a...................
7....................

74 0
1
4

17 9 34 20 95 6
10
6

13 11 17
10

78 1
2
11

82 4
4
8

3
9

179 180 19

9......................4 35,,,,,,,,,, 10. McNAIR 235

27 4

53 27

38 20

30 15

R. R. Bridge, Delta Branch Exp. Sta., P.O. Box 197, Stoneville, MS 38775
RRB-1................ 12 1 RRB-2................ 6 RRB-3............... 7 RRB-4............... 10 52 9 8 69 42 78 45 17 33 13 26 27 32 26 22

181 182 183 184

185 186 187 188
189

ROWDEN................ 81 4 RRB-5................. RRB-6................. 12 5 RRB-7.................
RRB-9..
.. . .... ........

68 3 5 1
0

94 11 19 20
3

97 39 25 68
17

85 14 15 24
8

14

190

McNAIR 235............ 15

4

9

58

22

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1989 FUSARIUM WILTTEST PLANT BREEDING UNIT, TALLASSEE, ALABAMA Test entry designation 20 Percent wilt by replication 4 Mean 2 3 1

Jack E. Jones, Dept. of Agron., Louisiana State Univ., Baton 70803-2110 Rouge, LA JJ 1............... 9 JJ 2................. 6 JJ 3.............. 8 JJ 4.................. 1 ROWDEN................100 JJ 5.............. 1 JJ 6............... 2 JJ 7.................. 4 JJ 8.................. 38 McNAIR 235............ 13 JJ 9.................. 37
JJ 10..............14

191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201
202

3 5 0 0 88 27 1 4 11 3 20
4

2 2 7 2 100 12 67 85 77 67 37
32

14 33 19 81 99 99 100 77 100 80 100
71

7 12 8 21 97 35 42 42 57 41 48
30

21

Ron Thorp, Stoneville Seed Co., Grande, AZ 72160 1. .................... 22 2................ *.018 ROWDEN............... 95 3..................... 75 4..................... 86 24 3 80 10 3

1180 Avenida Ellenna, Cassa 33 51 98 29 56

203 204 205 206 207 22 208
209

99 78 99 98 85

44 38 93 53 58

Curtis Williams, Jacob Hartz Seed Co., P.O. Box 946, Stuttgart, AR 72160 1.....................100
2....... .............. 22

99
4

100
11

100
17

100
14'

210 211 212 213
214

McNAIR 235............ 75 3.....................100 4.....................98 5.....................100
6.....................
96

1 51 98 58
12

31 98 100 100
99

78 100 100 100
100

46 87 99 90
77

215
216

ROWDEN................
7.....................

98
97

76
71

98
82

96
98

92
87

1989 FUSARIUM WILT TEST PLANT BREEDING UNIT, TALLASSEE, Test entry designation 23 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 24 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 25

ALABAMA

Percent wilt by replication 1 2 3 4 Mean P.O. Box 748, 36 29 43 53 36 56 51 36 91 48

Shelby H. Baker, Coastal Plains Exp. Sta., Tifton, GA 31793-0748 GA 1.................. 27 GA 2.................. 21 GA 3.................. 39 McNAIR 235............ 59 GA 4.................. 24 GA 5............... ... 79 GA 6.................. 47 GA 7.................... 34 ROWDENN..............100 GA 8................. 62 9 18 27 35 19 22 18 16 90 17 53 27 44 50 69 74 63 49 85 40 56 51 62 66 30 47 77 45 88 73

Warner Fisher, Chembred Inc., Rt. 3, Box 750, Maricopa, AZ 85239 1..................... 28 2 ................... 69 3 .................... 74 McNAIR 235............ 11 4..................... 14 5 ... ...... ........... 13 6.............. ..... 42 7..................... 4 ROWDEN..................98 8 ........... ......... 22 6 64 55 6 16 3 34 7 78 5 35 36 72 41 33 32 35 33 89 77 61 42 32 38 16 22 13 38 83 65 32 53 58 24 20 18 31 20 87 42

W. C. Johnson, Dept. of Agron., Auburn Univ., AL 36849-5412 Coker 320............. 17 KC 311................ 21 Terra C 30............ 20 McNAIR 235..........1. 10 Delcot 344............ 7 Arkot 518............. 9 HS 46................. 35 Stoneville 825........ 95 ROWDEN................ 80 Deltapine 20......... 8 Suregrow 35........... 3 DES 119............... 37 Tropical 225.......... 18 McNAIR 235............ 22 S 1001................ 6 8 13 10 20 2 14 53 90 30 4 2 13 10 5 30 27 20 14 78 25 31 66 98 96 44 7 19 39 12 25 26 18 43 59 76 59 88 100 100 19 39 72 58 41 61 20 18 22 42 28 28 60 96 76 19 13 35 31 20 30

237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251

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1989 FUSARIUM WILT TEST PLANT BREEDING UNIT, TALLASSEE, Test entry designation 25 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 26 Cont'd. Deltapine 51.......... Suregrow 55........... Coker 84-828.......... ROWDEN............ .... Tifcot 56............. Deltapine 90.......... Coker 315............. KC 380................ McNAIR 235............ Coker 130............. Stoneville 453........ Stoneville 506........ PD 3.................. ROWDEN................ Terra C 40............ Stoneville 112........ Pima S-6.............. Stoneville BR 115..... McNAIR 235............ Stoneville 907........ Paymaster 145......... Deltapine 50.......... 10 7 17 83 20 17 10 23 9 27 63 18 37 94 37 47 22 4 46 8 23 26 0 5 50 53 2 5 8 9 11 2 15 5
7

ALABAMA

Percent wilt by replication 1 2 3 4 Mean

13 85 70 100 95 73 61 96 56 29 21 50
44

39 55 95 100 95 42 97 91 40 57 57 67
40

16 38 58 84 53 34 44 55 29 29 39 35
32

62 6 2 5 2 10 6 38 11

97 49 54 80 94 94 58 87 26

100 65 74 51 69 59 67 60 36

88 39 44 40 42 52 35 52 25

Hal H. Jones, Sun Valley Seed, 610 West Broadway, Suite 118, Tempe, AZ 85282 SAC 10................ 14 ROWDEN................ 99 36 86 20 87 16 96 22 92

274 275

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