Table 7. Lint Yield, Gin Turnout, and Fiber Quality of Early-Maturing Cotton Varieties

Grown in Dillon Co. at Minturn, SC, in 2005. Early-Maturity Dryland OVT. M. Jones.

Lint

Gin

Variety

Yield

Turnout

Micronaire

Length

Strength

Uniformity

(lb/acre)

(%)

(in)

(g/tex)

(%)

DPL 434 RR

1766

41.7

4.1

1.19

25.9

83.1

PHY 440 W

1725

40.3

4.4

1.16

28.3

83.3

DPL 454 BR

1725

42.5

4.2

1.12

28.1

82.6

ST 4686 RR

1724

40.9

4.4

1.15

27.8

83.3

DPLX 03X179 RR

1704

41.4

4.5

1.18

29.5

83.6

DPLX 04Y170BR

1695

42.4

4.6

1.15

28.8

83.4

ST 5599 BR

1673

40.7

4.5

1.15

28.6

82.3

PSC 355

1649

39.0

5.0

1.14

29.1

83.4

DPL 432 RR

1640

39.7

4.4

1.16

28.6

83.4

DPL 555 BR

1639

45.0

4.3

1.12

27.3

81.2

DPL 455 BR

1597

43.1

4.4

1.18

28.2

83.5

PHY 480 WR

1588

38.6

4.5

1.16

29.0

83.1

FM 966 LL

1587

38.2

4.4

1.15

31.3

83.0

DPL 445 BR

1550

40.1

4.4

1.18

29.9

82.8

DPL 424 BII/RR

1531

36.8

4.5

1.13

27.3

83.4

PHY 370 WR

1526

40.5

4.5

1.15

28.9

83.5

PHY 310 RR

1521

42.1

4.6

1.15

29.5

83.5

ST 5242 BR

1510

40.0

4.5

1.13

27.0

83.2

PHY 410 RR

1508

39.1

4.5

1.16

29.0

83.5

FM 960 BR

1487

38.4

4.2

1.14

31.8

83.1

FM 960 RR

1487

39.8

3.9

1.16

30.0

82.4

PHY 470 WR

1478

38.6

4.4

1.13

27.5

83.2

FM 960 B2R

1463

39.1

4.2

1.17

30.4

82.6

ST 4575 BR

1463

40.0

4.6

1.14

27.4

82.8

DPL 444 BR

1459

41.3

4.2

1.17

28.4

83.5

FMX 0222 B2LL

1355

36.9

4.3

1.18

30.6

82.6

LSD (0.05)

201

1.3

0.2

0.02

1.3

1.0

C.V. (%)

2.4

3.5

1.48

3.3

0.9

Trial Mean

1579

40.2

4.4

1.15

28.8

83.0

Bold numbers are not statistically different at the 0.05 level of probability.