Abstract
PERHAPS the most significant feature of the cytological discussions was the difficulty of separating them, except in an arbitrary way, from the discussions of experimental breeding. This was due to three general trends. First there was an increasing use of the direct study of meiosis as a basic of genetic prediction and as a means of testing the reproductive methods of particular species. The work of White and Koller with sex chromosomes and of Huskins and Newcombe with the relations of chromatids at chiasmata were examples of the one, the studies of Levan on Allium, of Cleland on Œnothera, and of Janaki on Saccharum were examples of the other.
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DARLINGTON, C. Cytology. Nature 144, 816–817 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144816a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144816a0