This story starts with Rollins A. Emerson, born in Upstate New York in 1873, who moved as a child to Nebraska, where his family homesteaded near Kearney. He obtained a bachelor of science degree from the Agricultural College at the University of Nebraska-
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Authors’s note: This story is Part 1 of a series describing the role of Nebraska students and faculty and their substantial contributions in the improvement of plant breeding and crop genetics. It focuses on Rollins Emerson and his pioneering research working with the genetics and breeding of the common bean and corn as
model systems.
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. – This story starts with Rollins A. Emerson, born in Upstate New York in 1873, who moved as a child to Nebraska, where his family homesteaded near Kearney. He obtained a bachelor of science degree from the Agricultural College at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1895, with the eminent botanist Charles E. Bessey as his mentor.
Emerson worked in Washington, D.C., for several years as a horticultural editor with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Experiment Stations before returning to Lincoln in 1899 as the Horticulturalist with the Nebraska Experiment Station and Professor and Head of the Horticulture Department, where he began his distinguished career in genetic research, concentrating first on the