Maize Genetics by McClintock, Barbara

Title Maize Genetics Author McClintock, Barbara Binding PAMPHLET Publisher Annual Report of the Director of the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington Yearbook No. 42 Publisher Year 1943 Condition Very Good Description Reprinted from Annual Report of the Director of the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington Yearbook No. 42, 1943. In this report, McClintock used the BFB cycle to explore the effects of loss of increasingly larger amounts of a chromosome. The broader implications of her findings hinted toward the possibility of purposely generating specific mutations, a potentially powerful tool for mapping genes along a chromosome arm. Ownership stamp of Hampton L. Carson. First separate edition. Offprint. Original wrappers. *