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Qualitative Mendelian Inheritance In Wheat Hybrids, Aaron F. Bracken
Qualitative Mendelian Inheritance In Wheat Hybrids, Aaron F. Bracken
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Two methods of crop improvement are open to the plant breeder. Pure-line selection, which might be mentioned first, deals with the natural variability in plant populations. Thru selection, isolation, and comparative yield tests superior individuals are located. Nothing, however, can be added which the plant does not already have. Here hybridization provides a new starting point. Increased variation, new combination of characters, and thus greater opportunities are provided for improvement. The present investigation has for its purpose a study of the latter phase of this subject.
In certain parts of Utah the straw from dry-land wheat is used for feeding …
Mendelian Inheritance In Wheat Hybrids, J. Leo Mortensen
Mendelian Inheritance In Wheat Hybrids, J. Leo Mortensen
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Until the beginning of the present centry the general opinion was that Egypt and Mesopotamia were the earliest homes of cultivated plants. Recent translations of the old Chinese records, however, reveal the fact that many of our cultivated plants were grown by the ancient peoples of China prior to the time of the Egyptians.
Dettweiler (11) (1914) writes: "Today it is admitted--except by a few--that the original home of the primitive European population, the Indo-Germans, is not Asia but northern Europe, that they developed their culture there in the late stone age, and that they then dispersed in their wanderings …