Dr. Jane Dever

Dr Jane Dever, professor and organic cotton seed breeder at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. 

With a wide experience working in the cotton industry, she is well known across the cotton belt. Her research focuses on the development of new germplasm with enabling technology and screening exotic collections for native traits to be used in breeding cotton.

We had the great pleasure of spending the day with her at her seed bank in Lubbock, Texas and discovering why organic seed is so crucial to the future of our cotton. Here’s a brief explanation of her role as a ‘devious [seed] matchmaker’ of international proportions.