Floral Abnormalities in Maize (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The study of abnormal forms and displaced parts is one of the best methods of tracing the evolutionary history of a plant. In Zea mays, abnormal forms are of common occurrence, and it is seldom indeed that several distinct abnormalities are not found when even a few plants are carefully examined. They occur most frequently in varieties that have had little or no selection, probably because most abnormalities are in the nature Of undesirable reversions and so have been suppressed in well-bred strains as the result of selection. They can be brought into expression again by inbreeding or by crosses between widely different types.

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