. Maize; its history, cultivation, handling, and uses, with special reference to South Africa; a text-book for farmers, students of agriculture, and teachers of nature study. Corn; Corn. INHERITANCE—IMPROVEMENT BY BREEDING 197 in vigour due to crossing was noticeable, such as was met CHAP, with by East and Hayes. The same result was obtained with the reciprocal cross, showing that in this case the short habit is dominant. 154. Inheritance of Abnormal Divarfness.—Abnormally dwarf forms, i-i to 3 feet high, sometimes appear, possibly as examples of " reversion " or of " mutation &
. Maize; its history, cultivation, handling, and uses, with special reference to South Africa; a text-book for farmers, students of agriculture, and teachers of nature study. Corn; Corn. INHERITANCE—IMPROVEMENT BY BREEDING 197 in vigour due to crossing was noticeable, such as was met CHAP, with by East and Hayes. The same result was obtained with the reciprocal cross, showing that in this case the short habit is dominant. 154. Inheritance of Abnormal Divarfness.—Abnormally dwarf forms, i-i to 3 feet high, sometimes appear, possibly as examples of " reversion " or of " mutation ". East and Hayes. Fig. 82B.—Fj plant progeny of cross between types shown in Fig. 81 plants 4J to 5 feet high. find that segregation takes place in their inheritance, in the proportion of three normal to less than one abnormal, but the number of cases studied was perhaps inadequate to determine whether it was a case of Mendelian dominance. 155. Inheritance of Length of Ears.—Ear length does not show the increased vigour, according to East and Hayes, due to heterozygosis, that is seen in the heights of the plants. They conclude that there is scarcely a doubt that the greatly. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Burtt-Davy, Joseph, 1870-. London, New York, [etc. ] Longmans, Green and co.
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