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The History of Cotton Physiology

Jack Mauney


 
ABSTRACT

This will not be an exhaustive examination of all that has happened in this discipline or at this Conference. Instead, it will be a series of anecdotes which I believe can instruct us about the folly of becoming dogmatic in our views about what seems ‘obvious.' The take-home message of this essay is "Listen to the cotton plant." The cotton physiological system is unique, as is that of all species. We are at risk when we assume that some historical belief about it, or a transfer of data from another crop, will surely tell us how it will behave. The history of the study of cotton physiology is replete with instances of our traveling down wrong paths for decades because we were not sufficiently sensitive to its uniqueness.



Reprinted from Proceedings of the 1997 Beltwide Cotton Conferences pp. 1360 - 1361
©National Cotton Council, Memphis TN

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