Variability in Yield and Fiber Technological Properties of Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the variability in yield and fiber technological properties in advanced cotton lines developed through cotton breeding program of the Southeastern Anatolia Agricultural Research Institute (SAARI). The experiment was conducted in the SAARI's experimental field according to Augmented Design (AD) with six replications. In the study, 66 advanced cotton breeding lines and 3 control varieties ('Stoneville 468' , 'GW-Teks' , and 'Fantom') were used as plant materials. -1 for fiber yield. It was determined that ginning percentage was more than 39.85% for the 10.14%, fiber length was more than 29.76 mm for the 18.84%, fiber strength was more than 31.78 g tex -1 for the 8.7%, and fiber uniformity was more than 86.55% for the 13.05% of the materials. It was also determined that 1.45% of the material was very thin and 13.04% of the material was above 6.59% for fiber elongation and for short fiber index of 46.38% of the material ranged from 6.90 to 7.63.

VARIATIONS IN THE AGRONOMIC AND QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN SAFFLOWER (Carthamus tinctorius L.) GENOTYPES

“…Various researchers reported that the growth of cultivars varied by arid and low land conditions and that irrigation and rainfall increased the seed yield at the stages of branching and seed formation; furthermore, yield and crop traits were shown to vary by cultivar, ecological conditions, and agronomic practices. The large number of genotypes allows observation of exiting genetic variation which could be used to develop hybridization programs among the genotypes for the development of new cultivars with high yield potential, high oil content, and different fatty acid compositions (Mary and Gopalan 2006;Karademir et al 2007). In the present study, safflower genotypes originated from different countries were evaluated for their adaptation ability in Isparta ecological condition to reveal suitable types for further studies.…”