Jane Dever

Educational Background

Ph.D. Agronomy
Texas Tech University 1989

M.S. Crop Science
Texas Tech University 1986

B.S. Textile Eng. Technology
Texas Tech University 1983

Profile

Dr. Dever is currently the Director of the Pee Dee Research and Education Center. She holds tenure and the rank of Professor in the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. Previous career appointments include Professor and Associate Director, Texas A&M AgriLife Lubbock Research and Extension Center; Global Cotton Breeding Manager, Bayer CropScience; and Coordinator, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service AgriPartners program. She was an appointed scientific member of the National Genetic Resources Advisory Council and serves on numerous professional committees. She is an American Society of Agronomy and Texas A&M Regents Service Fellow and recipient of the Cotton Genetics Research Award.

Research Interests

Major research focus includes developing new and differentiated germplasm with enabling technology and screening exotic germplasm collections for native traits to be used in breeding cotton. Breeding targets include improved fiber quality, drought tolerance, nematode tolerance, disease tolerance to Verticillium dahliae, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum, and Xanthamonas, and yield component improvement in high fiber quality lines.

Publications

Dever, J. K., C. M. Kelly, A. Ayele, J. Zwonitzer, P. Payton, and D. Jones. 2020. Registration of CA 4007 cotton germplasm line for water-limited production. Journal of Plant Registrations. 14(1):49-56. https://doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20034
Abdelraheem, A., J. Zhang, D. Fang, and J. K. Dever. 2020. QTL Analysis of agronomic, fiber quality, and abiotic stress tolerance traits in a recombinant inbred population of pima cotton. Crop Science. 60(4):1823-1843. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20153
Zhang, J., A. Abdelraheem, Y. Zhu, T. Wheeler, J. K. Dever, J. Frelichowski, J. Love, M. Ulloa, J. Jenkins, J. McCarty, R. L. Nichols, T. Wedegaertner. 2020. Assessing genetic variation for Fusarium wilt race 4 resistance in tetraploid cotton by screening over three thousand germplasm lines under greenhouse or controlled conditions. Euphytica. 216:108.
Ayele, A. G., T. A. Wheeler, and J. K. Dever. 2020. Impacts of Verticillium wilt on photosynthesis rate, lint production, and fiber quality of greenhouse-grown cotton, Gossypium hirsutum. Plants. 9(7):857. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9070857
Wheeler, T. A., K. Siders, C. Monclova-Santana, and J. K. Dever. 2020. The relationship between commercial cotton cultivars with varying Meloidogyne incognita resistance genes and yield. Journal of Nematology 52. https://doi.org/10.21307/jofnem-2020-064
Zhang, J., A. Abdelraheem,Y. Zhu, T. A. Wheeler, J. K. Dever, H. Elkins-Arce. R. L. Nichols, and T. Wedegaertner. 2020. Pedigree selection under field conditions within Acala 1517-08 and its glandless derivatives for development of cotton resistant to Fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum race 4. Euphytica. 216(10):155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-020-02691-x
Ayele, A. G., J. K. Dever, C. M. Kelly, M. Sheehan, V. Morgan, and P. Payton. 2020. Responses of upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) lines to irrigated and rainfed conditions of Texas High Plains." Plants 9(11): 1598. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9111598
Babilonia, K., P. Wang, Z. Liu, P. Jamieson, O. Rodrigues, L. Zhang, W. Lin, *C. Danmaigona Clement, S. Finlayson, R. L. Nichols, T. A. Wheeler, J. K. Dever, L. Shan, and P. He. 2020. A non-proteinaceous Fusarium cell wall elicitor triggers receptor-like protein-dependent immune responses in plants. New Phytologist 230(1):275-289. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17146
Zhang, J., A. Abdelraheem, Y. Zhu, T. A. Wheeler, J. K. Dever, R. L. Nichols, and T. Wedegaertner. 2021. Importance of temperature in evaluating cotton for resistance to Fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum race 4. Crop Science. 61(3): 1783-1796. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20446
Zhu, Y., A. Abdelraheen, T. A. Wheeler, J. K. Dever, T. Wedegaertner, K. Hake. And J. Zhang. 2021. Interactions between cotton genotypes and Fusarium wilt race 4 isolates from Texas and resistance evaluation in cotton. Crop Science. 61(3): 1809-1825. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20469
C. M. Kelly, J. K. Dever, and V. A. Morgan. 2021 Registration of CA 4009 and CA 4010 cotton germplasm lines. Journal of Plant Registrations. 15(2): 366-371. https://doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20126
Zheng, L., J. Wu, F. Bourland, B. T. Campbell, J. K. Dever, S. Hague, G. O. Myers, T. B. Raper, C. W. Smith, and J. Zhang. 2021. Comparative study of transgenic and non-transgenic cotton. Crop Science. 61(4):2467-2477. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20522
Abdelraheem, A., Y. Zhu, J. K. Dever, T. A. Wheeler, T. Wedegaertner, K. Hake, and J. Zhang. 2021. Identification of resistance sources to Fusarium wilt race 4 in Gossypium barbadense and cultivated Asiatic diploid species. Euphytica. 217(7). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-021-02882-0.
Abdelraheem, A., Y. Zhu, J. K. Dever, T. A. Wheeler, T. Wedegaertner, K. Hake, and J. Zhang. 2021. Diallel analysis of resistance to Fusarium wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum) race 4 in American Pima cotton, Gossypium barbadense L Crop Science. 61(6):4000-4011. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20606.
Zhu, Y., A. Abdelraheem, P. Cooke, T. A. Wheeler, J. K. Dever, T. Wedegaertner, K. Hake, and J. Zhang. 2022. Comparative analysis of infection process in Pima cotton differing in resistance to Fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum race 4. Phytopathology 112(4):852-861. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-05-21-0203-R.
Dever, J. K., C. M. Kelly, and V. A. Morgan. Registration of cotton germplasm line CA 4008. 2022. Journal of Plant Registrations. 16:87-93. https://doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20175.
Zhang, J., Y. Zhu, A. Abdelraheem, H. D. Elkins-Arce, J. K. Dever, T. A. Wheeler, T. Isakeit. K. Hake, and T. Wedegaertner. 2022. Use of a latin square design to assess experimental errors in field evaluation of cotton for resistance to Fusarium wilt race 4. Crop Science. 62(2): 575-591 https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20673.
Maeda, A. B., L. W. Wells, M. A. Sheehan, and J. K. Dever. 2021. Stories from the greenhouse – A brief on cotton seed germination. Plants. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10122807.
Zhang, J., A. Abdelraheem, J. Ma, Y. Zhu, J. K. Dever, T. A. Wheeler, K. Hake, T. Wedegaertner, and J. Yu. 2022. Mapping of dynamic QTLs for resistance to Fusarium wilt (Fusarium osysporum f. sp. vasinfectum) race 4 in a backcross inbred population of upland cotton. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00438-021-01846-2.
Zhang, J., A. Abdelraheem, Y. Zhu, H. Elkins-Arce, J. K. Dever, D. Whitelock, K. Hake, T. Wedegaertner, and T. A. Wheeler. 2022. Studies of evaluation methods for resistance to Fusarium wilt race 4 (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum) in cotton: effects of cultivar, planting date, and inoculum density on disease progression. Frontiers in Plant Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.900131.
Maeda, A. B., C. M. Kelly, V. A. Morgan, S. Hague, Z. C. Wyatt, and J. K. Dever. 2022. Registration of CA 4014 and CA 4015 cotton cultivars. Journal of Plant Registrations. 16(2), 205-211. https://doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20216.
Bourgou, L., J. K. Dever, M. Sheehan, C. M. Kelly, K. S. Diane, and M. Sawadogo. 2022. Diallel crosses of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) from Burkina Faso and Texas A&M AgriLife -1: Analysis of agronomic traits to improve elite varieties from Burkina Faso. Agronomy. 12(4): 939. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12040939.
Zhang, J., Y. Zhu, H. Elkins-Arce, T. A. Wheeler, J. K. Dever, D. Whitelock, K. Hake, and T. Wedegaertner. 2022. Studies of evaluation parameter for resistance to Fusarium wilt in cotton caused by Fusarium wilt race 4 (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum). Crop Science. 16(3): 1115-1132. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20744.
Zhu, Y., H. Elkins-Arce, T. A. Wheeler, J. K. Dever, D. Whitelock, K Hake, T. Wedegaertner, and J. Zhang. 2022. Effect of growth stage, cultivar, and root wounding on disease development in cotton caused by Fusarium wilt race 4 (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum). Crop Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20839.
Ulloa, M., R. Hutmacher, J. Zhang, T. Schramm, P. Roberts, M. Ellis, J. K. Dever, T. A. Wheeler, T. Witt, S. Sanogo, S. Hague, M. Keeley, J. Angeles, J. Arce, K. Hake, and P. Payton. 2023. Registration of 17 Upland germplasm lines (PSSJ-FRU01 to PSSJ-FRU17) with improved resistance to Fusarium wilt race 4 and good fiber quality. Journal of Plant Registrations. 17(1):152-163. https://doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20258 .
Maeda, A. B., J. K. Dever, M. M. Maeda, and C. M. Kelly. 2023. Cotton seed size – what is the ‘fuzz’ all about? Journal of Cotton Science. 27:1-9.
Zhu, Y., A. Abdelraheem, P. Cooke, T. A. Wheeler, J. K. Dever, K. Hake, K. Bissonnette, and J. Zhang. 2023. Comparative analysis of infection process in upland cotton differing in resistance to Fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum race 4. Crop Science. 63(3): 1330-1343. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20965.
Zhang, J., Y. Zhu, T. A. Wheeler, J. K. Dever, and K. Hake. 2023. Targeted development of diagnostic SNP markers for resistance to Fusarium wilt race 4 in Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum). Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 298: 895-903. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00438-023-02024-2.