Table 32. Performance of 12 varieties in the Mid-Season Cotton Variety Test planted
on a Marietta silt loam soil at Mississippi State, MS in 1994.*
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Lint Micron- Length Unif. Strength Elon- Lint Boll Seed
Variety name Yield aire (UHM) index (HVI) gation Faction wt. Index
lbs/A in. % g/tex % --g-- --g--
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Hyperformer HS 46 1334 3.46 1.19 85.5 29.6 6.8 42.3 5.10 8.8
Chembred 1233 1310 3.84 1.15 85.3 29.1 7.1 41.2 5.14 8.8
Deltapine DP 5415 1302 4.04 1.17 86.2 30.3 7.7 42.5 4.58 8.0
Mycogen 3076 1301 3.62 1.21 87.2 32.6 6.6 40.4 4.88 8.8
Deltapine DP 5690 1289 3.73 1.15 86.7 30.4 6.6 40.8 4.80 9.8
Mycogen 2006 1288 3.67 1.19 85.1 29.7 6.9 41.1 5.61 8.6
Deltapine 50 1264 3.82 1.17 85.2 26.7 7.7 39.0 5.40 8.4
Hyperformer HY 39 1246 3.61 1.19 86.4 31.7 6.7 40.1 4.94 7.9
Hyperformer HS 44 1224 3.99 1.18 85.3 30.9 6.9 40.7 4.93 8.5
Stoneville LA 887 1210 3.68 1.21 86.6 31.8 7.4 42.7 5.95 9.5
Mycogen 1185 1177 3.76 1.21 87.9 30.7 6.8 39.0 5.49 9.7
Mycogen 2009 1170 3.70 1.21 86.8 30.4 6.4 38.0 5.39 10.2
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GRAND MEAN 1260 3.74 1.19 86.2 30.3 7.0 40.7 5.18 8.9
LSD (0.05) 56 NS 0.03 NS 1.9 0.4 1.0 0.50 1.2
CV (%) 4.6 6.2 1.5 1.6 4.4 3.6 1.7 6.8 9.4
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Planted May 9; Harvested October 6.
* Lint yield and first pick data from 6 replications; fiber, boll and seed data from
hand-harvested 100-boll samples taken from 2 replications.
Deltapine 50 included in this test as an early maturing check variety.