
1. Showing section of our extensive tobacco plant bed layout. 3. In order to gain valuable time in our breeding program, we 
2. This picture illustrates how our tobacco plant breeders grow make winter plantings in our greenhouse—the variety shown here is 
plants from individual plant selections. In each divided section is one we are breeding for resistance to disease. 
planted the seed from one outstanding plant. 4. Close-up of the delicate operation of making a cross of tobacco 
varieties. 

