Fig. 1. Effect of defoliation, tip damage, and early fruit loss on maturity of cotton in Exp. 2 and 3. Values are means + SE. Asterisks indicate treatments significantly different from the control at P = 0.05. For treatments, F indicates removal of fruit from first four fruiting branches; 50L or 100L are percentages of the leaf tissue removed; number of damage events is indicated by x 2 (twice) or x 4 (four times); and tip damage is indicated by T.