Biographical Note
Floyd E. Bolton was faculty member in the Oregon State University Crop
Science Department from 1967 until his retirement as an Associate Professor of
Agronomy in 1990. Bolton earned BS and MS degrees from Oklahoma State
University in 1959 and 1961 and a Ph.D. from Colorado State University in 1968.
Bolton worked on wheat breeding research and dryland agriculture projects in
Turkey, Tunisia, and the Middle East.
Content Description
The Floyd E. Bolton Papers document Bolton's research on wheat breeding
and dryland agriculture and his work on agricultural development projects in
Turkey and Tunisia in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Papers include article
reprints and manuscripts, conference proceedings, project proposals and
reports, and informational materials. Materials pertaining to wheat production
and dryland agriculture in Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, and
Syria in addition to Turkey and Tunisia are included in the collection.
Progress reports to the Oregon Wheat Commission on wheat research in Oregon are
included, as well as reports from the Agricultural Experiment Station in
Pendleton. Student papers from Bolton's study at Oklahoma State University are
included as well as information on Joseph Danne, a self-taught plant geneticist
in Oklahoma. The student papers from Oklahoma State as well as the Pendleton
Experiment Station report include photographs.