Effects of Potassium Fertilizing Rates on Yield, Fiber Quality and Potassium Use Efficiency of Three Hybrid Cotton Cultivars

The effects of potassium （K） application rates on the yield, fiber quality and K fertilizer use efficiency of three hybrid cotton varieties （Jin102, Xiangzamian8, Siyang328） were studied in field experiment. Fertilizer rates of K2O 135 and 270 kg/hm2, representing 1x and 2x recommended K rates, were applied, no application of k fertilizer as the CK. The results show that the lint yield increased 39.13%-57.48%with potassium application, highly significantly. Al yield components of the three hy-brid cotton varieties increased with the increase of K application amounts. The bol number per plant, single bol weight and lint percentage were increased by 14.24%-40.29%, 3.59%-15.51% and 0.16%-4.89%, respectively, and the fiber length and specific strength also increased with the increasing K application amounts, showing no significant influence on Micronaire. When the K application amounts increased from 135 to 270 kg/hm2, the partial factor productivity （PFPk） reduced by 45.93%-48.01%, and the agronomic efficiency （AEk） reduced by 37.1%-42.9%. The PFPk and KE （K efficiency coefficients） of S328 were the highest among the three varieties, which also showed the strongest resistance to low potassium stress, and with no potassi-um fertilizer application （K0）, the lint yield of S328 was 5.54% and 11.19% higher than that of X8 and J102. The AEk of J102 was the highest, and its reward of K fertilizer was the greatest among the three varieties.

Breeding of Transgenic Hybrid Cotton Variety‘Yumian 50' and Cultivation Technology

The mid-early-maturing new cotton variety ＇Yumian 50＇ was bred by In-stitute of Industrial Crops, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences. It was exam-ined and approved by Henan Provincial Crop Variety Approval Committee in 2016 （Yushenmian 2016002）. In order to study the variety characteristics of ＇Yumian 50＇ and the key points of its cultivation technology and accelerate its application in cot-ton production, the breeding process of ＇Yumian 50＇ was described in this paper. The test data of 26 times for 3 years of ＇Yumian 50＇ participating in Henan region-al tests in 2012-2014 were summarized. The results showed that ＇Yumian 50＇ had outstanding performance in Henan regional tests and production tests. ＇Yumian 50＇ is a new cotton variety with characteristics of high yield, good quality and high re-sistance to diseases and pests.

Comparisons of Photosynthetic Characteristics in Relation to Lint Yield Among F_1 Hybrids, Their F_2 Descendants and Parental Lines of Cotton

We compared the photosynthetic characteristics in relation to yield of two F1 cotton hybrids（Shiza 2-F1 and Xinluzao 43-F1）, their parental lines（NT2, H2 and 4-14） and their F2 descendants at different growth and development stages. The two F1 exhibited heterobeltiosis in net photosynthetic rate（Pn） by 8.1-52.1%, canopy apparent photosynthetic rate（CAP） by 8.2-57.6% and canopy respiration rate（CR） by 3.0-78.7% during the growing season. They also exhibited mid-parent heterosis by 2.0-5.2% in leaf chlorophyll content（SPAD） during the late growth and development stages. Regression analysis showed that both parents contributed to increase in Pn, SPAD and CAP in the F1. A low CR in the F1 matched a low CR of the parental line. Photosynthetic characteristics in the F2 were mainly dependent upon the magnitude and degeneration rate of the F1. Mid-parent heterosis in CAP and in CR during the late growth and development stage reduced the degeneration of the F2. Average dry matter accumulation was 10.7-34.7% higher in the parental lines of Xinluzao 43-F1 than in the parental lines of Shiza 2-F1. Heterobeltiosis in dry matter accumulation was 7.0-23.1% greater for Xinluzao 43-F1 than for Shiza 2-F1. Dry matter accumulation in the F1 was affected by either the dry matter accumulation of parents or heterobeltiosis. Dry matter accumulation in the F2 was mainly influenced by dry matter accumulation in the F1. The yields of the two F1 were 39.1-46.3% higher than their respective parents and 26.4-45.9% higher than that of the conventional cultivar Xinluzao 33. The yields of the two F2 were 9.2-12.8% higher than the parents and 14.9-27.4% higher than that of Xinluzao 33. The photosynthetic production and yield of the F1 and F2 were higher than that of their parents. The increases in Pn and CAP of the F1 and F2 were dependent on the photosynthetic characteristics of their parents. It is thus concluded that the photosynthetic performance, light use efficiency and yield of the F1 can be improved by using at least one parent with low CR, but high CAP, Pn and SPAD. This strategy might also improve the value of the F2.

The Utilization of HB-red Flower in Hybrid Cotton Breeding

The HB-red flower trait came from the filial generation of the interspecific cross of upland cotton(Gossypium hirsutum L.) and G.bickii.It exhibits pink petals and filaments,with a large

Improvement of Fiber Quality by Distant Hybridization in the Green Cotton

In order to improve fiber quality of green cotton,a wide hybrid was used between a green fiber cotton and Sea Island cotton.The results show that the hybrid F1 plants were stable,but F2

The Cloning and Fluorescence In situ HybridizationAnalysis of Cotton Telomere Sequence

Telomeres form the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes and serve as protective caps that keep chromosomes structure independency and completeness. The first plant telomere DNA was isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana and was shown to have tandemly repeated sequence 5-TTTAGGG-3： The Arabidopsis-type telomere has been found in many plants, but several reports indicate that this sequence is absent in some plants. Up to now, no research has been conducted on the telomere of cotton. In this paper, the Arabidopsis-type telomere sequence was amplified and cloned using the primers designed based on the fragment containing telomere sequence in an Arabidopsis bacterial artificial chromosome （BAC）. Fluorescence in situ hybridization （FISH） with cotton metaphase chromosomes using the Arabidopsis-type telomere sequence as probes indicated that the signals were located at all chromosome ends of seven diploid and two tetraploid cotton species with different signal intensities among chromosome complements of different cotton species, even between long and short arms of the same chromosome. To identify the signals of FISH, the genome DNA of Xinhai 7, a cultivar of Gossypium barbadense, digested by BAL-31 nuclease was introduced in this study. The result of BAL-31 digestion indicated that the hybridization signals of FISH represent the outermost DNA sequence of each cotton chromosomes. So we first proved that the telomeric repeats of cotton cross-hybridize with that of Arabidopsis. The results of terminal restriction fragment （TRF） showed significant variation in telomere length among cotton species. The telomere length of cultivated cotton was close to 20 kb and was larger than those of wild cotton species whose telomere length rahged from 6 to 20 kb.

Ways of Developing Plants in Interspecific Hybridization of Cotton

It is known,that there are various barriers to fertilization,development of embryos,and endosperm because of different number of chromosomes in parents in the interspecific hybridization of cotton.Thus the factors providing normal cell fission of a germ and endosperm are necessary.It is necessary to culture embryos in vitro on the artificial environments containing various phytohormones,or

Fiber Quality Improvement by Interspecific Hybridization in Upland Cotton

In order to transfer genes for extra fiberstrength to existing cotton cultivars,weintroduced 207 interspecific materials obtainedby outcrossing where G. hirsutum,G.barbadense,G.sturtianum,G.thurberi,G.harknessii and G.somalense etc.were involved asparents respectively.Under stringent

Test on Wilt-Resistance of Simple Hybrides F7 and Beckross Hybrid Lines F6 B1 of <i>G. hirsutum</i>L. of Cotton to New Virulent Isolates of Fungus <i>Fusarium verticillioides</i>and <i>Verticillium dahliae</i>

The article presents the results of studies on the resistance of hybrid cotton lines to a new virulent isolate (strain) of the fungus Fusarium verticillioides upon inoculation of the host plant. Based on the studies, it was found that the complex genotypic resistance of the studied lines, when the host plants are inoculated with isolates of -100 V. dahliae Kleb fungus and 103 Fusarium verticillioides fungi, depends on the degree of resistance of the parental forms and their combination ability.

Breeding of Good-quality High-yield Salt-tolerant and Drought-resistant Hybrid Cotton Variety Hengyou 12

Salt and drought tolerance, high yield and quality, disease and pest resistance of cotton varieties are new requirements for the current situation in cotton production. Hengyou 12 is a transgenic Bt cotton variety bred by hybridizing JD 28 （interspeciflc progeny of upland cotton, sea-island cotton, wild cotton species） as female parent with GK55 （transgenic Bt cotton variety） as male parent. The combining of parents was based on the complementary principle of parental traits. Hengyou 12 with strong heterosis was selected under disease stress, pest stress, salt stress and drought stress. This variety has many excellent characteristics, such as good resis- tance to diseases and pests, high yield, excellent quality, strong drought resistance and salt tolerance. ＇Hengyou12＇ was approved by Hebei Province in 2015, and is suitable for planting in middle and south areas of Hebei and similar ecological areas in the Yellow River basin.

Use of Interspecific Hybrids in the Texas A&M University Cotton Improvement Laboratory

Integrating alleles from Gossypium species into G.hirsutum is important for the enhancement of genetic variability and for creating polymorphism useful in molecular mapping studies.Through collaborative efforts,several species including G.barbadense,G.tomentosum,and G.mustelinum

Genotypic Resistance of F_1 Cotton Hybrids by Inoculation with Different Virulent Isolates of the Fungus Verticillium Dahliae Klebahn

The plant pathogen Verticillium dahliae causes severe cotton losses in Uzbekistan. To create cotton varieties that are resistant to the more virulent races of V.dahliae we wanted to determine

海陆杂交长绒棉棉铃、纤维品质性状及相关性分析

【目的】明确海陆杂交长绒棉的棉铃、纤维品质性状及相关性,为选育高产海陆杂交长绒棉提供参考依据。【方法】以自主选育的抗虫陆地棉种质系为母本、生产上推广应用的新疆长绒海岛棉品种为父本,配制海陆杂交棉新组合,分析23个海陆杂交棉组合F1代的棉铃、纤维品质性状以及相关性。【结果】23个海陆杂交棉组合F1代单铃重变幅为3.7~5.0 g,单铃重超过4.2 g的组合有12个,变异系数为9.0%;衣分变幅为20.1%~36.7%,衣分超过30.0%的组合有5个,变异系数为10.7%。不同组合F1代纤维长度变幅为34.5~38.5 mm,纤维长度在35.0 mm以上的组合有22个,变异系数为2.6%;纤维比强度变幅为34.8~41.8 cN/tex,纤维比强度超过39.0 cN/tex的组合有9个,变异系数为5.3%;马克隆值变幅为2.8~4.2,马克隆值A级的组合有10个,变异系数为11.8%。海陆杂交棉的单铃重与不孕籽率呈极显著负相关(r=-0.683**)、与每囊粒数呈极显著正相关(r=0.660**)、与每铃囊数呈显著正相关(r=0.495*);海陆杂交棉的纤维整齐度与纤维长度、纤维比强度呈极显著正相关(r=0.578**、r=0.639**),与伸长率呈显著正相关(r=0.506*);衣分与纤维长度呈显著负相关(r=-0.475*)。在23个海陆杂交棉组合中,W042×新海53号、W046×新海54号、W047×新海54号的棉铃性状与纤维品质性状已呈现同步改良。【结论】利用陆地棉与长绒海岛棉的杂交互补优势,可以实现长绒棉产量性状与纤维品质性状的同步改良。

基于混合驱动的分离罗拉运动轨迹规划研究

针对当前棉精梳机分离接合机构运动输出特性固定、振动大等问题,分析棉精梳机分离罗拉分离接合工艺,确定分离罗拉运动的位移关键点位置,根据差动轮系的运动规律提出交替驱动和分段驱动2种动力分配方案,并采用三次样条曲线作为交替驱动位移曲线、S型加减速曲线作为分段驱动位移曲线,通过对比分析得到最佳分离罗拉运动轨迹。指出:当设定棉纤维长度为30 mm时,2种驱动方案均能满足分离接合要求;采用混合驱动机构对分离罗拉高速正反转运动进行分解,实现伺服电机混合驱动分离罗拉,其运动性能更佳。

棉花海陆回交群体盛铃期的光合特性及其生理基础

为探究棉花海陆回交群体盛铃期的光合特性及其生理基础,筛选海陆杂交后代高光效种质资源,以陆地棉‘系9’为母本、海岛棉‘新海16’为父本构建的115份BC4F2:4株系群体为研究对象,测定其在田间条件下的光合参数及生理生化指标,利用描述性统计、相关性分析、回归分析、主成分分析和聚类分析评价子代株系的育种潜力。结果表明,回交群体的15个性状变异丰富,变异系数在8.96%~51.09%,其中净光合速率、蒸腾速率、水分利用效率、胞间CO_(2)浓度、气孔导度、水蒸气压亏缺、丙二醛含量、可溶性蛋白含量和超氧化物歧化酶活性9个性状变异系数均在20%以上。相关性分析发现,海陆回交群体不仅在光合或生理生化指标各自内部存在显著相关性,在光合与生理生化指标之间也存在显著相关性,其中叶绿素相对值(soil and plant analyzer develotrnent,SPAD)与14个性状的相关性均达到显著水平。多元逐步回归分析构建出10个光合生理指标的最佳回归方程。主成分分析提取了5个主成分,累计贡献率达78.608%,第1和第4主成分有效解释群体生理指标,第2、第3和第5主成分有效解释群体光合性状。Ward.D层次聚类法将群体划分为4类,第Ⅰ、第Ⅱ、第Ⅲ和第Ⅳ类群占总材料的百分比分别为33.91%、10.43%、29.57%和26.09%,且第Ⅳ类群的30份材料是综合性状较好的棉花种质,可作为适合育种需要的高光效品系。研究结果为棉花高光效育种提供了理论依据及材料支撑。

基于粒子群萤火虫混合算法的计算机辅助配棉

为促进棉纺企业精细化管理水平和生产效益的提升,提出一种粒子群萤火虫混合算法的计算机辅助配棉方法。首先,构造混和棉成本最小和混和棉综合质量指标最优的多目标优化函数,建立库存、总重量、原棉种类及质量指标边界等多约束条件,按照线性加权方式将多目标模型转化为单目标模型。其次,对粒子群和萤火虫群进行分阶段初始化,设计一种学习因子动态调整和非线性递减惯性权重策略用以提高粒子群算法的综合寻优能力,并采用自适应移动步长更新萤火虫个体位置。最后,使用粒子群、萤火虫及粒子群萤火虫混合算法对配棉模型进行求解。试验结果表明:3种配棉算法均展现出良好的求解可行性,所得混和棉质量指标的综合绝对误差分别为0.0268、0.0240、0.0281,皆处于较低水平;并且粒子群萤火虫混合算法在成本节约方面更具优势,其配棉的总成本相比粒子群算法、萤火虫算法分别降低了1.20%、2.27%。

Driving Mechanism of Cotton Comber's Detaching Roller Based on Time-Sharing Unidirectional Drive

The high-speed reciprocating motion of a detaching roller limits the velocity of a cotton comber and affects the quality of comber slivers. The article has proposed a controllable time-sharing unidirectional hybrid drive mechanism after analyzing detaching roller's current numerical control drive method. The analysis focuses on the detaching roller motion required according to cotton comber's velocity and process. The double-servo motors of the mechanism consists of differential gear trains. The mechanism addresses the problem of increased servo motor power,and failure of promptly responded to the positive inversion process of mechanism driven by servo motors. A velocity calculation model of the detaching roller controllable drive mechanism will be generated by using superposition method and design of differential gear trains. The accuracy of the model will be verified using the test platform. This study has presented a reliable and practical high-speed drive mechanism and can be a reference to future studies on high-speed reciprocating motion drive.

Genetic analysis of yield and fiber quality traits in upland cotton(Gossypium hirsutum L.) cultivated in different ecological regions of China

Background:Cotton is an important fiber crop worldwide.The yield potential of current genotypes of cotton can be exploited through hybridization.However,to develop superior hybrids with high yield and fiber quality traits,information of genetic control of traits is prerequisite.Therefore,genetic analysis plays pivotal role in plant breeding.Results:In present study,North Carolina II mating design was used to cross 5 female parents with 6 male parents to produce 30 intraspecific F1cotton hybrids.All plant materials were tested in three different ecological regions of China during the year of 2016-2017.Additive-dominance-environment(ADE)genetic model was used to estimate the genetic effects and genotypic and phenotypic correlation of yield and fiber quality traits.Results showed that yield traits except lint percentage were mainly controlled by genetic and environment interaction effects,whereas lint percentage and fiber quality traits were determined by main genetic effects.Moreover,dominant and additiveen vironine nt in teraction effects had more influence on yield traits,whereas additive and domi nance-e nviron ment interaction effects were found to be predominant for fiber traits.Broad-sense and its interaction heritability were significant for all yield and most of fiber quality traits.Narrow-sense and its interaction heritability were non-significant for boll number and seed cotton yield.Correlation analysis indicated that seed cotton yield had significant positive correlation with other yield attributes and non-significant with fiber quality traits.All fiber quality traits had signiflcant positive correlation with each other except micronaire.Conclusions:Results of current study provide important information about genetic control of yield and fiber quality traits.Further,this study identified that parental lines,e.g.,SJ48-1,ZB-1,851-2,and DT-8 can be utilized to improve yield and fiber quality traits in cotton.

Electrospun MgO/Nylon 6 Hybrid Nanofibers for Protective Clothing

Magnesia(MgO) nanoparticles were produced from magnesite ore(MgCO3) using ball mill. The crystalline size, morphology and specific SSA were characterized by X-ray diffraction analysis, transmission electron microscopy and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller method, respectively. MgO nanoparticle-incorporated nylon6 solutions were electrospun to produce nanofiber mats. Surface morphology and internal structure of the prepared hybrid nanofiber mats were examined by scanning electron microscopy and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, respectively. The fire retardancy and antibacterial activity(Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli) of coated fabrics made from MgO/nylon 6 hybrid nanofiber are better than those from nylon6 nanofiber.