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In view of some examples from the history of plant breeding attention is called to the results which breeders had obtained even before 1900 when Mendel's laws were rediscovered. These results are striking as regards both the varieties obtained and the methods applied. Curiously enough Hugo de Vries more or less disregarded the experimental methods and their successful application by compatriots in the first decade of the twentieth century. At any rate in the Netherlands genetics and plant breeding still went separate ways during the early part of this century.
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Sneep, J. Some facts about plant breeding before the discovery of mendelism. Euphytica 15, 135–140 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00022315
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