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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rred among the Fiseeds of a cross in which the parents differed in two characters,an individual in which the characters were segregated dif-ferently: for example, if a white sweet maize were pollinatedwith a yellow starchy race, and a seed developed having onehalf yellow sweet and the other half white starchy. The matteris simply mentioned because it is important to biological theory,and it was thought that some experimentalist might happenupon such an individual. It is thought that Webbers idea that seeds with splashedpurple aleurone cells are due to mosaic development of celldescendants of the endosperm nucleus and of the second malenucleus, is incorrect. If this idea were true, in cases where theendosperm is heterozygous yellow, this character also shouldbe mosaic. Such cases have never been reported. It thereforeseems better to consider the splashed purples as cases of incom-plete dominance caused by other factors as was explained ingreater detail earlier in the paper. PLATE XIII.
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a. Podded maize. The four husks successively removed showing nakedseed at right. The double rowed condition characteristic of allmaize varieties is seen most clearlv.

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