Fugen Dou, Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center, Beaumont, TX, Frank M. Hons, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Xingen Zhou, Texas A&M AgriLife Research & Extension Center at Beaumont, Beaumont, TX, Anna M. Mcclung, USDA-ARS, Stuttgart, AR, Shu Wang, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang City, China, H. Allen Torbert, USDA-ARS, Auburn, AL, Youzhong Lang, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, Ganghua Li Sr., Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, CHINA, Joeseph O. Storlien, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, College Station, TX and Jason P. Wight, Texas Agrilife Research, College Station, TX