One hundred and eight manuscripts representing nine of nine disciplines were submitted in 2012. A summary of the action taken on these manuscripts by discipline is provided in Table 1. The acceptance rate for manuscripts for which a decision has been made is 35.1% (excluding special series submissions). In 2012, 28 manuscripts were published in the Journal of Cotton Science. Distribution of published manuscripts by discipline was as follows: Agronomy and Soils – 2; Arthropod Management – 4; Breeding and Genetics – 3; Economics and Marketing – 0; Engineering and Ginning – 5; Molecular Biology and Physiology – 5; Plant Pathology and Nematology – 1; Textile Technology – 5; Weed Science – 3; Errata –1; and Editorial Notes – 1.
