11th ICAC-Network Meeting of the Interregional Cooperative Network on Cotton for the Mediterranean and Middle East Regions held in Antalya, Turkey
5-7 November, 2012
Delegates from Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, India, Mozambique, Spain, Sudan, Pakistan, Turkey, CIRAD and ICAC attended the meeting. The meeting elected Dr. Mohamed A. M. El-Sayed Negm of Egypt as the new General Coordinator of the Network. Next meeting of the Network will be held in Egypt.
Dr. Mohamed A. M. El-Sayed Negm
Head of the Spinning Research Department, Cotton Research Institute
9 Gamaa Street, 12619-Giza, Egypt
Email: prof.negmmohamed@yahoo.com
MONDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 2012
8.00 – 8.45 Registration
9.00 – 10.30 Welcome, Inauguration and Keynote Addresses
- Cost of Production Structure is Changing in Cotton
M. Rafiq Chaudhry - Biotech Cotton: Development, Opportunities and Challenges
Yusuz Zafar
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.00 Session 1 “Country Reports”
- Cotton Situation in Greece
Eleni Tsaliki and Apostolos Kalivas - Turkey Cotton Report
Huseying Basal and Volkan Sezener - Status of Organic Cotton Production in Turkey
Ulft Erdal and Aynur Gurel - Summary of Current Status of Cotton Research Program in the Sudan
Abdelrahman H. Latif
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.45 Session 2 “Breeding and Biotechnology – 1″
- Identification of QTLs for Cotton Fiber Quality in a M5 Mutant Segregating population
Bilyana Ivanova and Bojin Bojinov - Characterization of PROFILIN Genes from Allotetraploid (Gossypium hirsutum) Cotton and its Diploid Progenitors and Expression Analysis in Cotton Genetopyes Differing in Fiber Characteristics
Apostolos Kalivas, Anagnostis Argiriou, Georgios Michailidis and Athanasios Tsaftaris - Determination of Heterotic Effects of Seed Cotton Weight per Boll in F1 Hybrids of Double cross in Cotton
Remzi Ekinci, Sema Basbag and Oktay Gençer - Scenario of Cotton in India
R. W. Bharud
14.45 – 15.15 Coffee Break
15.15 – 16.30 Session 3 “Breeding and Biotechnology – 2″
- Recent Developments in Cotton Breeding and Biotechnology Fields in Turkey
Aynur Gurel and Volkan Sezener - Effect of Drought Stress on Leaf Area in Cotton
Cetin Karademir, Emine Karademir, Osman Copur and Oktay Gençer - Effect of Heat Stress on Leaf Area in Cotton
Emenie Karademir, Cetin Karademir and Oktay Gençer - Estimation of Combining Ability Effects for Resistance to Verticillium Wilt (Verticillium dahliae Kleb.), Earliness and Seed Cotton Yield in Upland Cotton
Yasar Akiscan and Oktay Gençer
17.00 – 18.30 Session 4 “Agronomy – 1″
- Performance of New Bulgarian and Foreign Cotton Varieties
Ana Stoilova and Neli Valkova - Productivity and Economic Effect for Cotton Cultivated Under Different Inter-row Space and Irrigation Rate
Ivan Saldzhiev and Angelina Muhova - The Role of Entomofauna in the Cotton’s Agrocenosis
Stefan Rashev and Yanko Dimitrov - Photosynthesic Performance of New Bulgarian Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) Varieties
Minka Koleva, Andon Vasilev, Ana Stoilova and Neli Valkova
TUESDAY, 6 NOVEMBER 2012
9.00 – 10.15 Session 5 “Agronomy – 2″
- The Antioxidant Potential: Factor of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Cotton
A. Edreva, A. Gürel, L. Yildiz-Aktas, S. Dagnon, B. Yağmur, H. Hakerlerler, V. Velikova, T. Tsonev, E. Gesheva, B. İzci, Y. Oren and H. Akdemir - Determination of Some Fertility Properties of Cotton Soils in the Antalya Region
İbrahim Çelik & Metin Durmuş Çetin - Evaluation of Germination Ability of Cotton Cultivars under Artificial Stress Conditions (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
F. P. Xanthopoulos, U. E. Kechagia and E. I. Tsaliki - Effect of Drought Stress on Water Use Efficiency and Leaf Temperature of Two Cotton Genotypes
Gülden Deniz Atasoy, Ozgür Tatar, Aynur Gürel, Ana Stoilova and Aglika Edreva - Incidence of Cotton Bacterial Blight on Sudanese Open Cotton Cultivars in Comparison with Introduced Open & Bt Cotton Cultivars in the Rahad Scheme
S. M. Eltayeb, S. Ibrahim and G. A. A. Elbadri
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 – 11.45 Session 6 “Agronomy – 3″
- Photosynthetic Efficiency in G. hirsutum Cotton Hybrids Under Summer Irrigated Conditions
R. W. Bharud - Determination Effects of Potassium and Zinc Application to Rate of Photosynthesis, Fiber Yield and Quality on Cotton
Sema Başbağ, Bahar Tekin, Remzi Ekinci, Mustafa Yaşar and Yüksel Bölek - Study of Cotton-Second Crop Rotation in Antalya
İbrahim Çelik, Metin Durmuş Çetin, Hüsniye Güleryüz, Önal Inan, Mustafa Çetinkaya and Can Geçkal - The Effect of Plant Growth Regulators on Seed Cotton (Gossypium spp. L.) Yield and Lint Quality under East Mediterranean Climatic Conditions
Efe Lale
11.45 – 12.15 Coffee Break
12.15 – 13.00 Session 7 “Poster Presentations”
- International Agricultural Training Centre, Turkey
- Calibrating the Micromat Instrument Using High Volume Instrument (HVI) Output Data
Abeer Arafa and Hana M. Arafa - Properties of Woven Fabrics Made from Compact, Ring and Open-End Rotor Cotton
Yarns Suzan H. Sanad and M. A. M. El-Sayed
13.00 – 16.30 Lunch & Break Time
16.30 – 17.45 Session 8 “Economy – Fiber and Yarn Technology”
- Bt Cotton Adoption and Variety Market Development: The Chinese Case
Naiyin Xu and Michel Fok - Assessment of Fiber Technological Properties of New Bulgarian and Some Foreign Cotton Varieties with HVI and AFIS
Ana Stoilova, Malgozhata Matusiak and Neli Valkova - Production of Carded Compact Cotton Yarn of Comparable Quality to the Combed Conventional Ring Yarn
M. A. M. El-Sayed, Suzan H. Sanad and H. E. M. Mahmoud - The Prediction of Yarn Strength of Cotton Sirospun Yarns from AFIS Fiber Properties by Using Linear Regression Analysis
Tuba Bedez Ute and Hüseyin Kadoğlu - Cotton Production and Research Status in Mozambique
Osvaldo Catine and Alexandre Pelembe
19.30 – 23.00 Gala Dinner