A 350 g subsample was taken for determining lint fraction on a 20 saw gin and for fibre quality measurements on a high-volume instrument (HVI) 900 (HVI 1000 in 2009) (USTER Technologies Inc.,
Charlotte, NC) and Shirley Fineness Maturity Tester-3 (FMT) (Shirley Developments Ltd., Stockport, England).
The experiments were grown with four replications in a Latinized alpha design (Williams, 1986) with AUS and US controls