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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 · 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.
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...
Harrison’s father, George H. Shull, was awarded an honor-ary degree by the college in 1942 for his part in the devel-opment of hybrid corn, which had an enormous effect on Iowa and many other parts of the world. One advantage of Iowa State was that the government-sponsored Ames Laboratory was located there, and Shull
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.
