Table 6. Lint percent, fiber properties, seed index and leaf hair score of entries in the Mid- season Cotton Variety Test, averaged across four Mississippi Delta locations in 1995.
Lint Micro- Length Unif. Strength Elon- Seed Leaf
Variety percent naire (UHM) index (HVI) gation index hair1
--%-- --in.-- g/tex --%-- g
Chembred 1135 37.7 4.39 1.12 83.7 27.8 5.8 9.9 8-2
Chembred 1233 38.2 4.57 1.12 83.7 28.5 6.1 9.6 2
Deltapine 5415 39.8 4.75 1.13 83.6 28.9 6.9 8.1 2
Hartz H1560 39.7 4.48 1.14 84.3 29.4 6.6 10.2 8
Hyperformer HS44 38.9 4.84 1.13 83.4 29.0 6.3 8.7 2
Hyperformer HS46 39.2 4.39 1.13 82.9 30.6 6.1 9.3 2
Hyperformer HY39 37.3 4.57 1.15 83.1 30.0 5.7 9.5 2-6
Olvey & Assoc. 50 37.3 4.46 1.16 83.4 27.4 6.7 9.5 2
Olvey & Assoc. 8 37.7 4.19 1.13 83.4 27.2 6.5 9.7 8
Stoneville LA887 39.9 4.52 1.16 84.2 31.1 6.8 10.1 8
Terra 292 35.9 4.58 1.14 83.5 26.2 6.7 10.1 2
Terra 302 39.2 4.51 1.10 83.1 24.7 6.8 9.4 2-8
Terra 366 37.3 4.60 1.12 83.1 24.8 6.4 9.9 2
Terra C-40 38.7 4.56 1.11 83.5 26.8 6.8 9.2 2
Deltapine 50 35.9 4.60 1.13 83.4 26.4 6.9 10.1 2
Deltapine 5690 38.7 4.76 1.10 83.2 30.4 5.8 9.6 2
Seed Source 9202 37.7 4.61 1.12 83.5 30.7 6.0 9.6 2
Test mean 38.2 4.55 1.13 83.5 28.2 6.4 9.6 --
CV (%) 1.4 2.9 1.2 0.6 2.9 2.4 3.6 --
R-squared 0.90 0.85 0.78 0.79 0.92 0.93 0.85 --
LSD (0.05) 0.6 0.16 0.02 0.6 1.0 0.2 0.4 --
Replications 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 --
1Leaf hair score of 0 to 8 (0=glabrous, 2=smooth [e.g. Deltapine 50], 8=hairy [e.g. DES 119]) based on a visual rating.