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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 ...
1 de mar. de 1998 · Learn how George Harrison Shull, a plant breeder at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, published a paper in 1908 that stimulated the exploitation of heterosis in maize breeding. Find out how he and his colleagues developed the procedures and techniques of hybrid maize, and how they differed from previous methods of corn-breeding.
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 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...
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.
6 de nov. de 2009 · Description. Keywords. Info. An historical recreation of George Shull at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1909, on the centennial of his experiment that was the foundation for all hybrid corn grown today. Duration: 3 minutes, 23 seconds. Posted: November 6, 2009. 16312. Biography 12: George Harrison Shull (1874-1954)
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.
