Plant husbandry – Process
Patent
1989-04-19
1991-08-13
Weimar, Elizabeth C.
Plant husbandry
Process
800200, 800DIG63, 47DIG1, A01H 100, A01H 102
Patent
active
050385186
ABSTRACT:
An improved overall process is provided which makes possible the reliable production of seeds capable of growing F.sub.1 hybrid cotton plants on an economically advantageous basis. A cotton planting area is selected which is suitable for habitation by ground-dwelling wild bees. The population of ground-dwelling wild bees is encouraged through the non-use of an insecticide of at least one growing season. During an immediately following growing season a portion of the planting area is planted with a block of early-blossoming plants which provide a source of pollen and nectar for the ground-dwelling wild bees during the spring and early summer. Another nearby section of the planting area during the immediately following growing season is planted with a substantially random population of cytoplasmically male sterile cotton plants and male fertile cotton plants which are capable of restoring male fertility to the progeny of the cytoplasmically male sterile plants. No insecticide is applied to the cotton plants at least unit after seed set has occurred. Pollination of the cotton plants is accomplished during mid- to late-summer through pollen transfer by the ground-dwelling bees and cottonseeds are formed. The resulting cottonseeds next are harvested in bulk and include a substantial concentration of seeds capable of forming F.sub.1 hybrid cotton plants.
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