Records and recollections: A new look at Barbara McClintock, Nobel-Prize-winning geneticist

Genetics

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1251-1260

  Kass, Lee B ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; CAREER; GENDER; MAIZE; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW;

GENETICS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; PORTRAITS; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0041817654     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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