今年春天,我国优质棉品种“鄂荆92”被送往美国南卡罗林那州佛罗伦斯Pee Dee试验站,参加中美联合进行的棉花品种试验,这成为我国棉花育种史上的一件大事。这个优质棉种的培育者是湖北省荆州地区农业科学研究所助理研究员周鑫。 十多年来,周鑫潜心棉花育种。他引种和杂交选育了“2292”等早熟品系的三朵“银花”,培育出了“鄂荆92”、“鄂荆1号”等优质高产的两朵“银花”。人们说他用心血为祖国浇开“五朵银花”。 周鑫开始搞棉花育种是在“十年内乱”期间,那时,条件极为困难,原有的育种材料被销毁了,农科 This spring, China’s high-quality cotton variety “Jing-Jing 92” was sent to Pee Dee Experimental Station in Florence, South Carolina, to participate in the cotton variety trials jointly conducted by China and the United States, which has become a major event in the history of cotton breeding in China . The breeder of this high-quality cotton seed is Zhou Xin, an assistant researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences in Jingzhou, Hubei Province. More than 10 years, Zhou Xin concentrated cotton breeding. He introduced and crossed two “Silver Flowers” of early maturing lines such as “2292” to breed two “Silver Flowers” of high quality and high yield such as “Jing-92” and “Jing-1”. People say he painstakingly poured out “five silver flowers” for his motherland. Zhou Xin began to engage in cotton breeding during the “10 years of civil strife,” when conditions were extremely difficult, the original breeding material was destroyed, and agricultural