East, Emerson, and the birth of maize genetics

Handbook of Maize: Genetics and Genomics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3-15

  Coe, Ed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-77863-1_1     Document Type: Chapter

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