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X-ray induced barley mutants and their prototype Hannchen were tested for their behaviour in evolutionary breeding (the term is used to indicate the application of population genetics to plant breeding). It was shown that only the “better” mutants survive. Eventually only the fittest mutants and recombinants will comprise the population.
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Contribution from the Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Agronomy Departments of the University of California and of Arizona, co-operating. The mutants were selected from a culture grown for R. S. Caldecott at Brawley California in 1955.
Research Agronomist and Geneticist, Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Field Station, Supt., University of California, respectively at Davis, California, Tucson, Arizona, and Tulelake, California.
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Suneson, C.A., Ramage, R.T. & Hoyle, B.J. Compatibility of evolutionary and mutation breeding methods. Euphytica 12, 90–92 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00033598
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