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The activity of X-rayed apical meristems: A genetic and morphogenetic analysis inZea mays

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  1. Department of Botany, Montana State University, Missoula, Montana, USA

    Otto L. Stein (Assistant Professor) & Dale M. Steffensen

  2. Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, Long Island, New York

    Otto L. Stein (Assistant Professor) & Dale M. Steffensen

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Research carried out at Brookhaven National Laboratory under the auspices of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The study was initiated under a U.S. Public Health Service Cancer Research Fellowship to O. L. S. and completed under AEC contract AT (45-1)-1302. We are indebted to Drs.H. Quastler andA. H. Sparrow for critically reading the manuscript, to Dr.H. E. Reinhardt, Montana State University, for statistical advice, and for technical assistance to MissB. M. Robinson and Mrs.L. Grodzins andD. B. Stein.

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Stein, O.L., Steffensen, D.M. The activity of X-rayed apical meristems: A genetic and morphogenetic analysis inZea mays . Zeitschrift für Vererbungslehre 90, 483–502 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00918501

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