by Peter A Peterson (Iowa State University) & Angelo Bianchi (Istituto Sperimentale Cerealicoltura, Rome)

About Peter A Peterson

About Angelo Bianchi

This book provides the biographies, and a related summary, of geneticists and breeders of maize who have contributed to the major discoveries in the 20th century. Their relationships to one another, as well as the general developments in maize genetics and breeding growth, are included. Photographs of events and related personnel, all part of the biographic presentation, portray the maize community and its growth. Most of the geneticists and breeders have a common origin in their training, and their sucessors are among the current contributors to maize development.

• Development of Maize Genetics and Breeding:
  • Flowering of Maize Genetics
  • Relevant Genetic Milestones in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
  • The Maize Plant
  • Emergence of Corn
  • The Bussey Institute and Its Role in the Development of Plant Science
  • The Legendary School of Maize Genetics Under Emerson
  • The Early Maize Cytogenetics Group
  • The Maize Breeding Group
  • The Maize Evolution Group
  • A Later Genetics-Cytogenetics Group
  • Stock Center, Genetics, and Pathology
  • The Italian Maize Genetics Scientists
  • The Development of an Understanding of the Anthocyanin Pathway
  • The Origin of the Allerton Maize Genetics Meetings
  • The Maize Community
  • The Maize Pedigree Tree
  • Legacy of the Past
  • Science Progress
• The Commemorative Issues of MAYDICA:
  • William A Russell
  • Charles R Burnham
  • R Alexander Brink
  • William L Brown
  • Marcus M Rhoades
  • George F Sprague
  • Paul C Mangelsdorf
  • Barbara McClintock
  • Charles O Gardner
  • John R Laughan
  • Hugh H Iltis
  • Oliver E Nelson, Jr.
  • Drew Schwartz
  • Peter A Peterson
  • Arnel R Hallauer
  • Earl B Patterson
  • Arthur Lee Hooker
  • Myron G Neuffer
  • Ercole Ottaviano
  • Donald Sage Robertson
  • Edward H Coe, Jr., Marcus S Zuber
  • David B Walden
  • James D Smith
• Recent Developments in the Genetics and Molecular Biology of Maize Mutants:
  • Gene Cloning
  • Visiting the Genome
  • Genome Dissection and Fingerprinting
  • Biotechnology
  • Maize Development