Yield and Plant Characteristics of 200 Different Cotton (Gossypium spp.) Genotypes

The experiment was conducted to determine the yield and plant characteristics (plant height, number of sympodial branches, boll number, seed cotton weight, 100-seed weight, seed cotton yield and seed yield,) of two-hundred different cotton (Gossypium spp.) genotypes in Kahramanmaras (Türkiye) conditions using a randomized complete block design with four replications in 2018 and 2019. At the end of the study, it was determined that there were statistically significant differences among the cotton genotypes for all investigated characteristics. Results of two year average showed that plant height, number of sympodial branches, boll number, seed cotton weight,, 100-seed weight, seed cotton yield and seed yield for cotton genotypes ranged between 53.10 – 110.50 cm, 4.2 – 12.0 no. plant-1 , 4.5 – 18.3 no. plant-1 , 2.0 – 6.4 g, 7.7 – 13.5 g, 1290 – 6230 kg ha -1and 880 – 406 kg ha-1 , respectively. As a result of the study, AzGR-11835 and NIA-UFAQ for seed cotton yield had the highest value