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George Harrison Shull (April 15, 1874 – September 28, 1954) was an American plant geneticist [1] and the younger brother of botanical illustrator and plant breeder J. Marion Shull. He was born on a farm in Clark County, Ohio, graduated from Antioch College in 1901 and from the University of Chicago ( Ph.D.) in 1904, served as ...
11 de abr. de 2024 · George Harrison Shull was an American botanist and geneticist known as the father of hybrid corn (maize). As a result of his researches, corn yields per acre were increased 25 to 50 percent. He developed a method of corn breeding that made possible the production of seed capable of thriving under.
1 de mar. de 1998 · Shull was a pioneer of plant breeding who discovered the benefits of crossing inbred lines of maize in 1908. His work led to the development of hybrid maize, a major achievement of genetics that increased yield and uniformity in corn production.
In 1915, Shull accepted a professorship at Princeton University. At his instigation, Princeton University Press began the publication of a new journal, Genetics. Shull was the managing editor for ten years. Genetics is still one of the top international science journals. Shull retired in 1942.
1 de ene. de 2001 · George Harrison Shull and Edward Murray East, working well away from the midwestern Corn Belt at two separate institutions on the Atlantic seaboard (East worked in Connecticut, Shull on...
7 de oct. de 2021 · This article highlights Shull's skillful rhetoric and semantic that shaped the prejudice blinding biologists for more than a century and their neglect of Shull's stated goals of crop uniformity and breeders' property rights.
He published many papers on his observations of plant traits and inheritance. In 1905, he began work on corn, maize, with the intent of examining the quantitative inheritance of corn traits. Following Mendel's example, Shull obtained pure-bred lines of corn through self-pollination.
