Description:
Four imazamox herbicide tolerant mutant cotton genetic stocks, SCM3-4-3, SCM3-7-3, RM3-8-1, and EM4-3-1 were obtained through 2.45 % v/v ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) mutagenesis of seeds of three High Plains cotton cultivars (SC 9023, Rocket and Explorer) at Lubbock, Texas. Successive treatment of the resulting mutants with five rates of imazamox (0, 88, 175, 350, and 700 g a.i. ha-1) from 1997 to 2006 identified these four mutants with elevated levels of tolerance to imazamox when compared to the original non-mutated check cultivars.