Lubbock, Texas
March 18, 2008
Dr. Jane Kveton Dever has been
named Associate Professor - Cotton Breeding at
Texas AgriLife Research
at Lubbock effective April 1, according to Dr. Jaroy Moore,
resident director of research at the Texas AgriLife Research and
Extension Center at Lubbock.
Dever will be headquartered at the center located at 1102 East
FM 1294.
“We were very fortunate to have been able to hire Jane,” said
Moore. “She comes to us from Bayer CropScience where she was the
Western U.S.and international cotton breeding manager. She has
years of experience working with the cotton industry and is well
known across the cotton belt.
“She is also well known and respected within the Texas A&M
University System. Many will remember her for her work here in
the cotton breeding program with Dr. John Gannaway throughout
the early 1980s and early 1990s. She also worked closely with
Dr. Bob Robinson’s AgriLife Extension Agri-partners program in
Lubbock.”
Dever says she is very excited about returning to Texas AgriLife
Research to assume leadership of the cotton breeding program in
Lubbock. She will fill the position currently held by Gannaway,
professor of cotton breeding, who plans to retire Aug. 31 after
28 years leading the Cotton Improvement Program at Lubbock.
"I am grateful to have had the opportunity for beltwide and
international experience at Bayer CropScience, but my heart is
in the High Plains of Texas where I first fell in love with the
science of cotton breeding,” Dever said. “It is a tremendous
opportunity for me to return to this program that is supported
and respected by cotton growers, industry and Texas AgriLife
Research. The foundation has already been laid through screening
exotic germplasm and cooperative research with other disciplines
to further develop unique and improved cotton germplasm for
Texas."
Devers holds a bachelor’s degree in textile technology and
management, a master’s in crop science and a doctorate in
agronomy and plant breeding, all from Texas Tech University.
Her most recent management assignment at Bayer CropScience was
as a member of the site visit committee and due diligence team
for the acquisition of Stoneville Pedigreed Seed Company. She
led the team that integrated the research and development
operation into Bayer CropScience.
From 1999 to 2006, she worked for Aventis, then Bayer
CropScience, to coordinate cottonseed breeding and product
development globally.
Dever served as a member of the adjunct graduate faculty at
Texas Tech University from 1990 until 2004. She has been a
member of the adjunct graduate faculty at Texas A&M University
since 2000.
From 1998 to 1999, Dever worked as the product development
manager for FiberMax Cottonseed where she was responsible for
directing internal and external research and development of the
FiberMax cotton varieties.
Dever’s other experience includes working as a senior research
scientist at BioTex, a small contract research firm, as a
textile engineer for Plains Cotton Cooperative Association, and
as head of materials evaluation for Texas Tech University’s
International Textile Center.
Dever has held many committee assignments throughout her career,
including: National Cotton Variety Testing Committee, Bayer Core
Cotton Team-Breeding Representative, Governor’s Emerging
Technology Fund Advisory Board and the Texas Department of
Agriculture Grants Review Board.
She has authored or co-authored more than 40 scientific
publications and holds two U.S. cotton-related patents.
A native of Abernathy, Dever grew up on a cotton, grain sorghum
and soybean farm, and was graduated from New Deal High School.
She is married to James Dever. |
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