Some Perspectives From 50 Years of Cotton Breeding

My cotton breeding career began as a graduate student in 1970.  In that year, I learned many of the mundane operations of cotton breeding such as planting plots, making crosses, picking boll samples, ginning the samples and delinting seed.  I have continued to perform these operations now for 50 years and have witnessed much change.  This presentation will enumerate major changes that I have witnessed and provide insight on why they have occurred.