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R. Mansfeld’s scientific influence on genetic resources research
Fig. 1: Index Seminum of the Gatersleben collection, from “Kulturpflanze” 1,
1953 (front and back page)
The journal “Kulturpflanze”
From the first volume of the “Kulturpflanze” on (Berlin, 1953), R. Mansfeld was
“Schriftleiter” (managing editor) until vol. 8 (1960). He helped to create an extremely
useful journal publishing papers on all aspects of research done at the Gatersleben
Institute. The contents shifted more and more to taxonomy and plant genetic resources
research, but also included extremely important reports from the other departments
of the institute. This journal survived until vol. 38 (1990) after which it was
transformed into an International Journal under the name of “Genetic Resources and
Crop Evolution” (vol. 39, 1992) with Kluwer Academic Publishers (Dordrecht,
HAMMER and HANELT 1992). Volume 48 (1) of this journal is dedicated to the memory
of R. Mansfeld on the occasion of the 100 th anniversary of his birthday (PISTRICK and
HAMMER 2001).
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