Identifier: inheritanceinmai00east (find matches)
Title: Inheritance in maize
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: East, Edward M. (Edward Murray), 1879-1938 Hayes, Herbert Kendall, b. 1884
Subjects: Corn Heredity Corn
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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b. Segregation of pericarp color R4 in F2 of cross 5x11. Amount of colordeveloped is variable depending on light conditions duringmaturation. Pericarp Colors. INHERITANCE OF POD CHARACTER. 105 PART IV. PLANT CHARACTERS. In this part of the paper the inheritance of normal plantcharacters is considered. These characters in general have noeffect upon the endosperm — the new generation — and there-fore do not show as Xenia in the daughter seeds of the ear thathas been crossed. Podded and Podless Maize. The inheritance of the podded character is interesting becauseit is a shining example of a case where a gross morphologicalcharacter behaves as a simple Mendelian mono-hybrid. No.21 a podded maize was crossed with a common Learning dentlike No. 7, but not of the same stock. The Fi generation wasas perfectly podded as the podded parent. There was of coursesome variation in the length of the husks of the seeds, a varia-tion apparently physiological in character depending upon thevigor of

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