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. 2005 Apr;169(4):1787-97.
doi: 10.1093/genetics/169.4.1787.

Cornfests, cornfabs and cooperation: the origins and beginnings of the maize genetics cooperation news letter

Lee B Kass  1 , Christophe Bonneuil, Edward H Coe Jr
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Cornfests, cornfabs and cooperation: the origins and beginnings of the maize genetics cooperation news letter

Lee B Kass et al. Genetics. 2005 Apr.
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F<sc>igure</sc> 1.—
Figure 1.—
R. A. Emerson with former and current students and colleagues at Fernow Hall, Cornell University, January 1, 1922, following the AAAS meeting in Toronto, where the second “cornfest” was held. Back row, from left to right: Milislav Demerec, Sterling Emerson, Ernest G. Anderson, and Charles Metz; front row, from left to right: Maxwell J. Dorsey, Sewall Wright, Rollins A. Emerson, William Bateson, Claude Burton Hutchison, Calvin Bridges, Frank P. Bussell, and Lewis A. Eyster (with permission of Royse P. Murphy, Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell University; see also Provine 1986, p. 103).
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Figure 2.—
R. A. Emerson and members of the Synapsis Club, 1923. Herbert J. Webber started this student/faculty organization at Cornell in 1907, and Emerson continued and encouraged member participation (Department of Plant Breeding Records, Courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library). Members are identified from left to right (an asterisk designates corn researchers). Front row: William T. Craig, J. Randal Livermore, Ernest Dorsey, Franklin D. Keim, Robert D. Lewis, Laurens J. Henning, John P. Jones, *Helen A. Z. Trajkovich, G. V. Wazalwar. Second row: Frank P. Bussell, *Allan C. Fraser, Harry H. Love, *Rollins A. Emerson, Clyde I. Myers, *Roy G. Wiggans, *Lester W. Sharp, *Lowell F. Randolph. Back row: T. Sasaki, Archie F. Barney, Harold D. Brown, Leo A. Van Rooyen, *Pavao Kvakan, Andrew D. Suttle, Walter A. Burkholder, Lua A. Minns, Edward L. Proebsting, Clifford V. Kightlinger, Merl C. Gillis, and *Iang Chandrastitya.
F<sc>igure</sc> 3.—
Figure 3.—
R. A. Emerson, Mr. S. C. A. R. Crow, and students of corn genetics posing in front of the Plant Breeding shed near the Plant Breeding Garden at Cornell University, 1927 (see also Kass and Murphy 2003) (courtesy of William B. Provine). From left to right, front row: Hsien W. Li (China), Ivan F. Phipps (Australia), Allan C. Fraser, George Beadle's dog (Toto), George W. Beadle, and Harold B. Riley. From left to right, back row: Thomas Bregger, George F. Sprague, R. A. Emerson, S. C. A. R. Crow, Professor Emerson's dog, Roy G. Wiggans, and Wiggans' technician.
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Figure 4.—
Linkage group 9 and Rainbow map as of April 12, 1929 (after Emerson 1929; excerpted from E. G. Anderson's annotated copy in MNL archives; reprinted in MNL, Vol. 53, pp. 118–119, 1979).
F<sc>igure</sc> 5.—
Figure 5.—
Cover of Maize Genetics Cooperation News Letter 19, February 15, 1945. The disclaimer was added to the News Letter cover for the first time in 1945.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. Anderson, E. G., and M. M. Rhoades, 1931 The distribution of interference in the X-chromosome of Drosophila. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Vol. 13, pp. 227–239.
    1. Beadle, G. W., 1929. a Dear Sir, Nov. 23, 1929; reprinted in Maize Genet. Coop. News Lett. 72: 129–130 (1998).
    1. Beadle, G. W., 1929. b Dear Sir, Dec. 19, 1929; reprinted in Maize Genet. Coop. News Lett. 54: 136 (1980).
    1. Beadle, G. W., 1930. Dear Sir, Feb. 5, 1930; reprinted in Maize Genet. Coop. News Lett. 54: 136 (1980).
    1. Berg, P., and M. Singer, 2003 George Beadle: An Uncommon Farmer. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

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