They demonstrated that fully mechanized hybrid seed production and increased seed number can be achieved using small-grain alleles of GSE3 in male sterile lines.

With cotton picking being a manually laborious task, the new machine—which is an autonomous robot—is seen as a critical step toward making cotton farming fully mechanized.

Further, they demonstrate that fully mechanized hybrid seed production and increased seed number can be achieved using small-grain alleles of GSE3 in male sterile lines.