90 Years Ago: The Beginning of Hybrid Maize
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- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- other
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 148 (3) , 923-928
- https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/148.3.923
Abstract
IN early 1908, George Harrison Shull, then at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, published a paper with the unimposing title, “The composition of a field of maize.” This marked the beginning of the exploitation of heterosis in plant breeding, surely one of genetics' greatest triumphs. It is appropriate, on this 90th anniversary, to look once again at Shull's great contribution and its sequelae.Keywords
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