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Hayes and Garber - Cucurbit Breeding

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328 INDEX<br />

Wheat, artificial crossing of, 69, 71<br />

awns in wheat, 85<br />

blooming in, 69<br />

breeding, 134, 135<br />

chaff characters, 84<br />

classification of species, 77<br />

disease resistance, 85, 87, 134<br />

Fi crosses, vigor, 4345<br />

flower structure, 34, 70<br />

hardiness in, 87<br />

improvement by crossing, 134<br />

Kanred, 76, 128<br />

linkage in crosses, 79, 80, 84<br />

Marquis, 136<br />

natural crosses in, 34-36<br />

Polonicum crosses, 79<br />

Red Rock, 128<br />

seed characters, 81-84<br />

size characters, 88<br />

species crosses, 77, 78<br />

spike density, 81<br />

sterility in species crosses, 79<br />

T. dicoccoides, wild, 78<br />

wheat-rye crosses, 35, 106<br />

White, endosperm characters, maize,<br />

186<br />

fruit, origin, <strong>and</strong> antiquity of,<br />

261<br />

inheritance in pea, 236, 239, 240<br />

Wichura, species crosses, willow, 8<br />

Wight, potato species, 219<br />

plum species, 262, 265<br />

Williams, ear-to-row, maize, 198<br />

selection for stiff straw, wheat,<br />

129<br />

Williams <strong>and</strong> Welton, ear characters<br />

<strong>and</strong> yield, maize, 197<br />

varietal crosses, maize, 203<br />

weight of seed planted <strong>and</strong><br />

yield, 124<br />

Wilson, inheritance, potatoes, 222<br />

Wilson <strong>and</strong> Warburton, cotton species,<br />

175<br />

Witte, timothy breeding, 212<br />

Wittmack, origin of potatoes, 220<br />

Wolf, seed size increase due to cross,<br />

maize, 201<br />

Wood <strong>and</strong> Stratton, checks in<br />

correcting yield, 53<br />

probable error by pairing<br />

method, 58<br />

Xenia in barley, 103<br />

in maize, 183<br />

in rice, 37<br />

in rye, 106<br />

law in maize, 184

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