Hayes and Garber - Cucurbit Breeding

320 INDEX
Breeding, cotton, 177
cucurbits, 259
flax, 158
fruits, 266, 273, 278, 279
Hays, progeny test, 111
Hopkins, ear-to-row test, 111,
198
keeping records in, 111
maize, 196, 290
radish, 250
self-fertilized vegetables, 247
small grains, 111
soybeans, 148
timothy, Cornell station, 210,
211
at Svalof, 212
wheat, 135, 137
Buckwheat, breeding, 108
characters of, 107
original home of, 107
species, 107
Bull, the Concord grape, 265
Burnett, oat selections, 131
Bushnell, squash, selfing in, 68
breeding, 260
Camerarius, on sexuality, 3
Caporn, inheritance, size characters
oats, 96
Carleton, origin of rice, 108
Carrier,' increase of seed size due to
crossing, 201
Check plots, correcting yields by, 53,
55
estimating heterogeneity by, 53
in obtaining probable errors, 55
Cherries, self-sterility in, 269
Citranges, 277
Clover, pollination in, 207, 214
selection in, 292
species, 214
Coe, mutations in velvet beans, 150
Collins, origin of maize, 182
podded characters in maize, 189
varietal crosses in maize, 202,
203
Collins and Kempton, endosperm
characters in maize, 185
Collins and Kempton, increase in
seed size due to a cross, 201
Competition in variety test, 63
in rod row tests, 64
Correlations, morphological characters
and lodging, small
grains, 127
value of, 125
Correns, endosperm characters of
maize, 185
xenia in maize, 183
Cotton, chromosome number, 177
cultivated species, 173
disease resistance, 177, 178
flower structure, 174, 175
inheritance in, 176
mutations in, 177
natural crosses in, 38, 173
origin of, 173
Cowpea, inheritance in, 143, 144
Iron, a variety of, 131
origin, 143
resistance to disease, 144, 145
selection and crossing results,
145
Crane, inheritance in tomato, 245
Crop improvement, value of, 14, 15
Crops, mode of reproduction of, 33,
34
Crosses, handling of, 116
Crossing, artificial, 68
small grains, 69
technic of, 74
Crossing-over, 12, 27
Cucumber, heterosis in, 257
inheritance, 257
Cucurbit crosses, 7
classification, 255
Cytology, reduction division in
plants, 17, 18
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Darwin, heredity, 10
natural selection, 9
variability, 10
Date palm, sexuality, 3
De Candolle, origin and antiquity of
vegetables, 235