Short Staple Cotton Advanced Strains Trial, Safford Agricultural Center, 1997

Twenty five short staple advanced strains /varieties were grown in a replicated field on the Safford Agricultural Center in 1997. These included thirteen lines from Australia (including transgenic Bt lines), four lines from Georgia, five lines from N!AISU, and two lines from Terra. The transgenic Australian lines dominated the trial with three of them yielding over 3 bales. The next nine varieties yielded over 2.5 bales per acre, they included six Australian variety, DP 90 (the standard variety) and an experimental from New Mexico. IF 1003 was the highest yielding non -transgenic variety in the trial. Much agronomic information is included in the paper as well as HI 7 values for each variety.