COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES

	Daryl Bowman Professor of Crop Science	CROP SCIENCE PERSONNEL
	3709 Hillsborough Street Campus Box 8604 Raleigh, NC 27695	CURRICULUM VITAE
	Phone: (919) 513-3444 FAX: (919) 515-7378 daryl_bowman@ncsu.edu

My program encompasses variety testing of eight crops, cotton breeding and teaching three plant breeding courses. I teach CS 748 Breeding for Pest Resistance, CS 860 and CS 861 Plant Breeding labs. Research emphasis has been on the stastical aspects of variety testing, and cotton breeding.

OVT (OFFICIAL VARIETY TESTING)

My program evaluates experimental lines, hybrids, and varieties of barley, corn, corn silage, cotton, oats, soybean, triticale, and wheat. Research in variety testing has examined the feasibility of planting corn to a stand, use of post-mortem analyses (spatial analysis) to improve precision, testing under irrigation versus dryland testing in different soils, proper use of variety test data in choosing varieties, tillage on wheat testing.

COTTON BREEDING

Emphasis in cotton breeding has been fiber quality, and thrips resistance. Genetic relatedness of commercial varieties has been examined as well as the impact of transgenic cottons on field uniformity. Improved fiber quality in terms of longer, stronger fibers with small diameter has been a breeding objective. Transferring thrips tolerance from Sea island cotton to Upland cotton is in progress as a third breeding objective. Morphological traits that are part of the selection process include smoothleaf (removes lint trash), nectariless (removes a source of food for moths), and sub-okra leaf (a source of lint yield improvement).

STAFF

• Johnny Denton-Agriculture Research Technician II
• Philip Johnson-Agriculture Research Technician III
• Dwight Parrish-Agriculture Research Technician III