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IN a paper on “Growth and Variation in Maize” (Zeitschr. f. indukt. Abstammungs- und Vererb-ungsLehre, xiv., 1915, Nos. 3–4), Drs. Raymond Pearl and F. M. Surface combine the statistical and individual methods of inquiry. “We have tried,” they write, “by studying the growth of the individual to analyse the adult variation curve into its component elements.” Height is the character chosen for investigation; the relative variability as observed throughout the season “shows a marked progressive diminution,” and the authors believe that the maize plant grows “in a series of cycles.” In a second part of the paper they discuss the relation of variation to growth, and from the distribution of small, medium, and large plants conclude that the manner of growth is dependent on Mendelian factors.
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Genetic Studies in Plants . Nature 98, 119–120 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098119b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/098119b0