Jane Dever

Director, Pee Dee Research and Education Center
Professor
Plant and Environmental Sciences Department, PeeDee Research and Education Center

Office: 233 Pitner Center
Phone: 843-519-0464

Email: jkdever@clemson.edu

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

Director, Pee Dee Research and Education Center
Professor, 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.
Service includes appointed scientific member of the National Genetic Resources Advisory Council numerous professional society and commodity 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

Avinash Sreedasyam, John T. Lovell, Sujan Mamidi, Sameer Khanal, Jerry W. Jenkins, Christopher Plott, Kempton B. Bryan, Zhigang Li, Shengqiang Shu, Joseph Carlson, David Goodstein, Todd Campbell, Jenny C. Koebernick, Jane K. Dever, Jodi A. Scheffler, Duke W. Pauli, Johnie N. Jenkins, Z. Jeffrey Chen, Fred Bourland, Warwick N. Stiller, Christopher A. Saski, Jane Grimwood, Peng W. Chee, Don C. Jones, and Jeremy Schmutz. 2024. Genome resources for three modern cotton lines guide future breeding efforts. Nature Plants. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01713-z

Abdalla, A., T. A. Wheeler, J. K. Dever, Z. Lin, J. Arce, and W. Guo. 2024. Assessing fusarium oxysporum disease severity in cotton using unmanned aerial system images and a hybrid domain adaptation deep learning time series model. J. Biosystems Engineering. 237:220-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2023.12.014.

Bourgou, L., J. K. Dever, M. Sheehan, C. M. Kelly, K. S. Diane, and M. Sawadogo. 2023. Diallel crosses of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)- Enhancement of fiber properties in future cultivars for Burkina Faso. Agronomy. 13: 2864. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13122864.

Zhang, J., Y. Zhu, T. A. Wheeler, and J. K. Dever. 2023. Development and validation of allele-specific PCR-based SNP typing in a gene on chromosome D03 conferring resistance to Fusarium wilt race 4 in Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum). Molecular Genetics and Genomics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00438-023-02079-1.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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