Maize Publications

There is presented here a partial list of publications on maize.
M.J. Murray and R. Morris

Anderson, E. and F. D. Blanchard - Prehistoric maize from Cañon Del Muerto. Amer. Jour. Bot. 29: 832-835. 1942.

_______________ and H. C. Cutler - Races of Zea Mays: I. Their recognition and classification. Missouri Bot. Garden: Annals 29: 69-86. 1942.

_______________ and R. O. Erickson - Antithetical dominance in North American maize. Proc. Nation. Acad. Sci. 27: 436-440. 1941.

Andres, J. M. and P.C. Bascialli - Hereditary characters of cultivated maize in Argentina. Genetica 2: 3-26, 1941.

Avery, G. S., J. Berger and B. Shalucha - Auxin content of maize kernels during ontogeny. From plants of varying heterotic vigour. Amer. Jour. Bot. 29: 765-772. 1942.

_______________ - Auxin storage as related to endosperm type in maize. Bot. Gaz. 103: 806-808. 1942.

Bair, R. A. - Climathological measurements for use in the prediction of maize yield. Ecology 23: 79-88. 1942.

Bryan, A. A. and J. E. Sass - Hereditary characters of maize; Knotted Leaf. Jour. Heredity 32: 343-346. 1941.

Clark, D. G., H. Hecht, O.F. Curtis and J.I. Shafer, Jr. - Stomatal behavior in inbred and hybrid maize. Amer. Jour. Bot. 28: 537-541. 1941.

Darlington, C. D. and M. B. Upcott - The activity of inert chromosomes in Zea mays. Jour. Genetics 41: 275-296. 1941.

Edwards, J. K. - Cytological studies of toxicity in meristem cells of roots of Zea mays. II. The effects of lithium chloride. Proc. S. Dakota Acad. Sci. 21: 65-67. 1941.

Elliott, Charlotte - Relative susceptibility to Pythium root rot of 12 dent corn inbreds. Jour. Agr. Res. 64: 711-723. 1942.

_______________ - Bacterial wilt of dent corn hybrids. Phytopath. 32: 262-265, 1942.

_______________ - A Pythium stalk rot of corn. Jour. Agric. Res. 66: 21-40. 1943.

Hayes, H. K., R. P. Murphy and E. H. Rinke. A comparison of the actual yield of double crosses of maize with their predicted yield from single crosses. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 35: 60-65. 1943.

Henry, G. F., E. E. Down, and W. D. Baten - An adequate sample of corn plots with reference to moisture and shelling percentages. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 34: 777-781. 1942.

Ho, W. C. and J, M. Koepper - Host response of maize seedlings to Pythium graminicolum. Abst. in Phytopath. 32: p. 9. 1942.

Holbert, J. R. - 33 years breeding corn. Seed World 51: 116-118. 1942.

Hoppe, P. E. - Relative prevalence and geographic distribution of various ear rot fungi in the 1941 corn crop U.S.D.A. Plant Dis. Rep. 26: 145-149. 1942.

Houseman, E. E. and F. E. Davis - Influence of distribution of rainfall and temperature on corn yield in western Iowa. Jour. Agric. Res. 65: 533-546. 1942.

Huber, L. L. and G. H. Stringfield - Aphid infestation of strains of corn as an index to their susceptibility to corn borer attack. Jour. Agric. Res. 64: 283-291. 1942.

Hull, F. H., J. D. Warner, and W. A. Carver - Corn varieties and hybrids and corn improvement. Fla. Agric. Exp. Station. Bul. 355: 1-50. 1941.

Jenkins, M. T. - Reports of 4th and 5th Corn Improvement Conferences of North Central Region, Washington, D. C. (mimeographed) Feb., 1942.

Johann, H. - Origin of the suberized semi-permeable membrane in the caryopsis of maize. Jour. Agric. Res. 64: 275-282. 1942.

Jones, D. F. - Growth changes associated with chromosome aberrations. Abst. in Gen. 28: p. 78. 1943.

_______________ - Chromosome degeneration in relation to growth and hybrid vigor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 28: 38-44. 1942.

_______________ - Natural and induced changes in chromosome structure in maize endosperm. Proc. Nation. Acad. Sci. 27: 431-435. 1941.

Keller, K. R. - Evaluation of some morphological characters of corn in respect to their use in forecasting yield. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 34: 940-953. 1942.

Klempton, J. H.. and J. W. McLane - Hybrid vigor and weight of germs in the seeds of maize. Jour. Agric. Res. 64: 65-80. 1942.

Kerakamp, M. F. and W. J. Martin - The pathogenicity of paired haploid lines of Ustilago zeae versus the pathogenicity of numerous mixed haploids. Phytopathology 31: 1051-1053. 1941.

Kiricenko, E. G. - Selecting maize for low and high weights of core in the cob. Jarovizacja 3: 70-73. 1941.

Kirichenko, F. G. and A. S. Musiiko - (On improvement of natural qualities of maize seed). Iarovizatsiia (Vernalization) 1 (34): 37-39. 1941.

Koehler, B. - Natural mode of entrance of fungi into corn ears and some symptoms that indicate infection. Jour. Agric. Res. 64: 421-442. 1942.

Lindstrom, E. W. - Experimental data on the problem of dominance in quantitative character inheritance in maize and tomatoes. Abst. in Gen. 28, p. 81. 1943.

Livingston, J. E. - Charcoal rot of corn and sorghum in Nebraska. U.S.D.A. Plant Dis. Rep. 26: 40-52. 1942.

Lyerly, P. J. - Some genetic and morphologic characters affecting the popping expansion of popcorn. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 34: 986-999. 1942.

Mather, K. - Competition for chiasmata in diploid and trisomic maize Zeitschr. Zellforsch. u. Mikrosk. Anat. Abt. B: Chromosoma: Zeitschr. Zellkern u Chromosomen forsch. 1: 119-129. 1939.

Maxwell, L. R. and others - Effect of temperature and time on the X-ray sensitivity of maize seeds. Jour. Washington Acad. Sci. 32: 18-24. 1942.

McClintock, B. - The fusion of broken ends of chromosomes following nuclear fusion. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 28: 458-463. 1942.

Mitchell, J. W. and Whitehead, M. R. - Responses of vegetative parts of plants following application of extract of pollen from Zea mays. Bot. Gaz. 102: 770-791. 1941.

Moulton, J. E. - Extraction of auxin from maize, from smut tumors of maize and from Ustilago Zeae. Bot. Gaz. 103: 725-739. 1942.

Murphy, R. P. - Convergent improvement of four inbred lines of corn. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 34: 138-150. 1942.

New Jersey Agric. Expt. Sta., Dept. of Plant Pathology - Sweet corn wilt and smut tests. 1941. N. J. Agric. Expt. Sta., Plant Dis. Notes 19: 45-47. 1942.

O'Mara, J. G. - A cytogenetic study of Zea and Euchlaena. Missouri Agric. Expt. Sta. Res. Bul. 341. 1942.

Patch, L. H. - Survival, weight, and location of European corn borers feeding on resistant and susceptible field corn. Jour. Agric. Res. 66: 7-20. 1943.

_______________, G. W. Still, M. Schlosberg and G. T. Bottger - Factors determining the reduction in yield of field corn by the European corn borer. Jour. Agric. Res. 65: 473-482. 1942.

Patch, L. H., J. R. Holbort and R. T. Everly - Strains of field corn resistant to the survival of the European corn borer. U. S. Dept. Agric. Tech. Bul. 823: 1-21. 1942.

Peterson, D. F. - Duration of receptiveness in corn silks. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 34: 369-371. 1942.

Rather, H. C. and J. Tyson - What effect do commercial fertilizers have on the maturity of corn. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 35: 43-47. 1943.

Reeves, R. G. and P. C. Mangelsdorf - A proposed taxonomic change in the tribe Maydeae (family graminae). Amer. Jour. Bot. 29: 815-817. 1942.

Rhoades, M. M. and Hilda Vilkomerson - On the anaphase movements of chromosomes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 28: 433 435. 1942.

_______________ - Preferential segregation in maize. Genetics 27: 395-407. 1942.

Richardson, J. K. - Studies of root rot of corn in Ontario. Can. Jour. Res. 2OC: 241-256. 1942.

Roberts, L. M. - The effects of translocation on growth in Zea mays. Genetics 27: 584-603. 1942.

Robinson, J. L. and John E. Christensen - Containers for corn moisture samples. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 34: 59-62. 1942.

Sartoris, G. B. - Longevity of sugarcane and corn pollen. A method for long-distance shipment of sugarcane pollen by airplane. Amer. Jour. Bot. 29: 395-399. 1942.

Shafer, J., Jr. - Water loss from excised leaves. Amer. Jour. Bot. 29: 89-91, 1942.

Schindler, A. J. - Insect transmission of wallaby ear disease of maize. Jour. Austral. Inst. Agr. Sci. 84. 35-37. 1942.

Sharman, B. C. - Maceration method to demonstrate the vascular system in Zea mays. Bot. Gaz. 103: 627-629. 1942.

Sommer, A. L. and A. Baxter - Differences in growth limitation of certain plants by magnesium and minor element deficiencies. Plant Physiology 17: 109-115. 1942.

Sprague, G. F. - Transmission tests of maize mutants induced by ultraviolet radiation. Iowa Agric. Exp. Sta. Res. Bul. 292: 389-407. 1941.

_______________ and Lloyd A. Tatum - General vs. specific combining ability in single crosses of corn. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 34: 923-932. 1942.

Stadler, L. J. and H. Roman - The genetic nature of X-ray and ultraviolet induced mutations affecting the gene A in maize. Abst. in Gen. 28: 91. 1943.

Stadler, L. J. and S. Fogel - Gene variability in maize. I. Some alleles of R(R^r series). Abst. in Gen. 28: 90. 1943.

_______________ - Gene action in anthocyanin synthesis in maize. Abst. in Amer. Jour. Bot. 29: 17. 1942.

Stringfield, G. H. and D. H. Bowman - Breeding corn hybrids for smut resistance. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 34: 486-494. 1942.

Swearingen, T. Cool-bred corn pollen. Iowa Agriculturist 42: 50-51. 1942.

Tatum, L. A. and M. S. Zuber - Germination of maize under adverse conditions. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 35: 48-59. 1943.

Tavcár, A. - The immediate effect of crossing small and large seeded genotypes on the character of the kernels of Zea Mays L. Poljopr. Naucna Smotra, Zagreb. 2: 77-96. 1940.

Ullstrup, A. J. - Inheritance of susceptibility to infection by Helminthosporium maydis. Race I in maize. Jour. Agric. Res. 63: 331-334. 1941.

Valle, C. G. - Estudios genoticos Sobre el maiz. 2 La prueka y utilización de las lineas homogeneas. Mem. Soc. Cubana Hist. Nat. 16: 29-36. 1942.

Veale, P. T. - Nutritional information from plant tissue tests. Better Crops 26: 10-13, 42-45. 1942.

Weibe, H, D. and Phillips, M. - Hemicelluloses of cornstalks. Jour. Agric. Res. 64: 401-406. 1942.

Wilson, W. E. - Physiological studies of two species of Diplodia parasitic on corn. Phytopath. 32: 130-140. 1942.

Woodhouse, W. W., Jr. and H. D. Morris - Effect of vitamin B on field crops grown on several North Carolina soils. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 34: 322-326. 1942.

Zuber, M. S. - Relative efficiency of incomplete block designs using corn uniformity trial data. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 34: 30-47. 1942.