WCRC-7 Cotton Webinar Series
ICAC, ICRA and Cotton Incorporated have introduced a series of monthly webinars leading up the the seventh installment of the World Cotton Research Council, which has been postponed until 2-7 October 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The webinars are free to all but a meeting ID and passcode are required. Detials about the upcoming speaker and webinars, as well as a list of past webinars and links to watch them, can be found below.
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Past Webinars
7 October
Game-Changing Science & Technologies for Cotton
- Dr Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov, Minister of Innovative Development, Uzbekistan
Exciting Digital Technologies for Cotton Farming
- Dr Kater Hake, Cotton Incorporated
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4 November
Climate Change: Physiological Implications and Challenges
- Dr Raja Reddy, Mississippie State University
Climate Change: Management Implications and Challenges
- Dr Michael Bange, CSIRO
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2 December
Soil Health
- Prof Rattan Lal, Ohio State University, USA
Battling Bollworm Resistance to Bt Cotton
- Prof Bruce Tabashnik, University of Arizona
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6 January
Achieving High Yields and Fine Quality of Cotton with Agronomic Technologies
- Prof Hezhong Dong, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Novel Genetic Traits for Cotton Improvement
- Prof Keerti S Rathore, Texas A&M University
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English
The French recording was corrupted and lost, our apologies!
The Spanish recording was corrupted and lost, our apologies!
3 February
Genes, Jeans and Genomes: What We Now Know about the Evolution of Gossypium and the Origin of Polyploids
- Prof. Jonathan Wendel, Iowa State University, USA
Increasing Automatic and Robotic Applications in Cotton
- Dr Edward Barnes, Cotton Incorporated
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3 March
The Challenges with Cotton Sustainability
- Allan Williams, Australia’s Cotton Research and Development Corporation
Is Cotton a Water-Guzzling Crop?
- Marcelo Peytas, Argentina’s National Institute of Agricultural Research
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7 April
Genomic-assisted Breeding in Cotton
- Dr Mehboob-ur-Rahman of the National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
The Power of Cotton Genomics
- Dr John Yu, research geneticist with USDA-ARS and adjunct professor with Texas A&M University
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5 May
Importance of Non-HVI (High Volume Instrument) Cotton Fiber Properties
- Dr Eric Hequet, Texas Tech University, USA
Wealth from Waste: Cotton By-Product Value Addition
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Dr. Prashant Patil, Mahatma Phule Agricultural University, Rahuri, India
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2 June
Better Together: International Partnerships Can Solve Threats to Cotton Production
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Dr. Jodi Scheffler, Research Geneticist Plants, USDA-ARS
When the Seed Breaks, when the Fibre Sticks … Some Contaminants of Cotton
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Dr Jean-Paul Gourlot, Co-leader of the Cotton Sector Group, CIRAD
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Dr Bruno Bachelier, Cotton Supply Chain Correspondent, CIRAD