The invention discloses a
machine-harvested cotton variety breeding method which comprises the following steps: step 1, in the first year, hybridizing a parent AY4 and Xinluzao No.12 in Xinjiang to obtain an F1 generation, and screening single plants; 2, in the second year,
selfing the F1 generation in Xinjiang to obtain an F2 generation, and screening single plants; 3, in the third year, F2 generation screening single plants are planted in Xinjiang, south propagation is conducted in Hainan in the same year, and excellent single plants are screened; 4, in the fourth year, adding generations in Xinjiang to obtain F4-generation screening single plants; 5, from the fifth year to the ninth year, single plants are screened in Xinjiang every year for planting. According to the technical scheme, by taking
adaptation to mechanical harvesting as a core target, specific parent and
offspring single plant materials are screened through evaluation and selection of important upland cotton mechanical harvesting key characters such as a
plant type structure, centralized maturation, high
temperature resistance, easy tip sealing property, flower breaking property,
branch boll carrying and node boll carrying, centralized defoliation and boll opening and the like; a good propagation
system of a
selfing mixed propagation method and a simultaneous storage separate propagation method is adopted, and cotton varieties with the characteristics that the
plant morphology is suitable for mechanical operation, cotton boll distribution is reasonable, and the defoliation property is good are cultivated.