Breeding More Into Cottonseed

Breeding More Into Cottonseed

From native resistance that protects yield to gene silencing that could open new markets for cottonseed, public researchers and commercial breeders are expanding what genetics can deliver.  Cotton breeders ask a lot of a seed. It must produce yield across environments that change dramatically across the Cotton Belt while contending with nematodes, bacterial blight, insects, heat, drought and disease. At harvest, pounds matter, but so does fiber …