Jinfa Zhang, a professor, Cotton Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, is the 2020 Cotton Genetics Research Award winner.
The announcement was made during the 2021 Beltwide Cotton Improvement Conference, which convened as part of the virtual 2021 Beltwide Cotton Conferences, coordinated by the National Cotton Council.
In Zhang s nomination, Jane Dever, a professor of cotton breeding at Texas A&M AgriLife Research, said he deserved the award for making not only genetic resources available but also rigorously peer-reviewed scientific knowledge unreservedly accessible to the cotton genetics research community, as we all work together to confront future challenges together.