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American geneticist
Donald Forsha Jones (April 16, 1890 – June 19, 1963) was a United States
maize geneticist and practical
corn breeder at the
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ,
New Haven .
[1] Beginning at the station in 1914, he made high-yielding
hybrid
corn practical by his invention of the double-cross hybrid.
[2]
In Jones' method, four
inbred corn lines are used. The seed from two initial crosses are used to grow up parental hybrids for the production fields. The production fields yield seed in sufficient quantity to make the scheme practical. Until Jones invented the double-cross method, the yield from the parent lines (the inbreds) was insufficient to allow practical production of hybrid corn seed.
[2]
Jones' work received significant public attention and was used to make the first commercial hybrid corn in the 1920s.
[1] He was the sole geneticist at the Connecticut Station from 1915 until 1921, when
Paul Mangelsdorf became his assistant there. Jones was the president of the
Genetics Society of America in 1935.
[3] He was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1934, and to the
National Academy of Sciences in 1939.
[4]
Publications
Jones, D F (1944), "Growth Changes in Maize Endosperm Associated with the Relocation of Chromosome Parts.",
Genetics , vol. 29, no. 5 (published September 1944), pp. 420–427,
doi :
10.1093/genetics/29.5.420 ,
PMC
1209256 ,
PMID
17247130
Jones, D F (1939), "Continued Inbreeding in Maize.",
Genetics , vol. 24, no. 4 (published June 1939), pp. 462–473,
doi :
10.1093/genetics/24.4.462 ,
PMC
1209049 ,
PMID
17246933
Jones, D F (1936), "The Mutation Rate in Somatic Cells of Maize.",
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. , vol. 22, no. 11 (published November 1936), pp. 645–648,
Bibcode :
1936PNAS...22..645J ,
doi :
10.1073/pnas.22.11.645 ,
PMC
1076832 ,
PMID
16577742
Jones, D F (1934), "Unisexual Maize Plants and Their Bearing on Sex Differentiation in Other Plants and in Animals.",
Genetics , vol. 19, no. 6 (published November 1934), pp. 552–567,
doi :
10.1093/genetics/19.6.552 ,
PMC
1208513 ,
PMID
17246737
Jones, D F (1934), "Unisexual Maize Plants and Their Relation to Dioecism in Other Organisms.",
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. , vol. 20, no. 1 (published January 1934), pp. 39–41,
Bibcode :
1934PNAS...20...39J ,
doi :
10.1073/pnas.20.1.39 ,
PMC
1076336 ,
PMID
16587838
Jones, D F (1924), "The Attainment of Homozygosity in Inbred Strains of Maize.",
Genetics , vol. 9, no. 5 (published September 1924), pp. 405–418,
doi :
10.1093/genetics/9.5.405 ,
PMC
1200833 ,
PMID
17246048
Jones, D F (1919), "Selection of Pseudo-Starchy Endosperm in Maize.",
Genetics , vol. 4, no. 4 (published July 1919), pp. 364–393,
doi :
10.1093/genetics/4.4.364 ,
PMC
1200466 ,
PMID
17245932
References
^
a
b Nelson, O. E. (1993).
"A notable triumvirate of maize geneticists" .
Genetics . 135 (4): 937–941.
doi :
10.1093/genetics/135.4.937 .
PMC
1205754 .
PMID
8307333 .
^
a
b
Amino Acids, Alleles, & Antibodies: The Work of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Yale Scientific Magazine, Winter 2004 [
permanent dead link ]
^ Weir, John "Jack" A. (April 1994).
"Harvard, Agriculture, and the Bussey Institution" . Genetics . 136 (4): 1227–1231.
doi :
10.1093/genetics/136.4.1227 .
PMC
1205903 .
PMID
8013900 .
^ Mangelsdorf, Paul C.
"Donald Forsha Jones 1890–1963, A Biographical Memoir." National Academy Of Sciences, Washington D.C. 1975.
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