Dr. David M. Stelly¹, Dr. Jean-Marc Lacape², Dr. Dominique E.G.A. Dessauw², Dr. Russell Kohel³, Dr. Guy Mergeai⁴, Dr. Marina Sanamyan⁵, Dr. Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov⁶, Dr. Tianzhen Zhang⁷, Dr. Kunbo Wang⁸, Dr. Baoliang Zhou⁷, Dr. Sukumar Saha⁹, and Dr. James Frelichowski³. (1) Texas A&M University, Dept. Soil & Crop Sciences, 370 Olsen Blvd., College Station, TX 77843-2474, (2) CIRAD, Avenue Agropolis, TA A-96/03, Montpellier, 34398, France, (3) USDA-ARS, 2765 F&B Rd., College Station, TX 77845, (4) FUSAGx, 2, Passages des Déportés, Gembloux, B-5030, Belgium, (5) National University of Uzbekistan, Department of Biology, Laboratory of Cotton Genetics, Vuzgorodok, Tashkent, Tashkent, 700174 (100174 ?), Uzbekistan, (6) Institute of Genetics and Plant Experimental Biology, Yuqori-Yuz, Kibray region, Tashkent, 702151, Uzbekistan, (7) Nanjing Agriculture University, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement and Cotton Researh Institute, Nanjing, 210095, China, (8) Cotton Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Avenue Huanghe, Anyang, 455000, China, (9) USDA-ARS, Genetics and Precision Agriculture Res. Unit, 810 Highway 12 East, Mississippi State, MS 39762