Agenda and Presentations

Agenda and Presentations

The 11^th 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.

MONDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 2012

• • • 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