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Jack Rodney Harlan
Pages 158-169

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... He spent most of his academic career as a faculty member in departments of agronomy. However, he never took a formal course in agronomy.
From page 160...
... he transferred to Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. While holding a joint appointment as professor of genetics at Oklahoma State, he began teaching on a limited basis and became involved with graduate students.
From page 161...
... , American Society of Agronomy ~ ~ 962 ) , Crop Science Society of America (1985)
From page 162...
... Domestication of Crop Plants in the Near East." Unfortunately he was too ill to attend. In November 1999 at the Crop Sciences Society of America annual meeting in Salt Lake City, a symposium was helcl in lack HarIan's honor.
From page 163...
... E Key lecturer in genetics, visiting scientist of the American Society of Agronomy, he lecturecl at many major institutions of higher education in North America, Europe, Asia, en c!
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... we ecly teosinte grew in proximity. He recognized that these weedy races were living germplasm banks available to the plant breecler as sources for resistance to disease en c!
From page 165...
... Hybrids tend to be sterile en cl chromosomes pair poorly or not at all. The tertiary gene pool (GP-3)
From page 166...
... Family members provided some personal information. Other material is the result of memories from having been associated with Harlan as a graduate student at Oklahoma State University and afterwards as a faculty colleague at the University of Illinois.
From page 167...
... 58-83. Ames: Iowa State University.
From page 168...
... Madison, Wisc.: American Society of Agronomy. Our vanishing genetic resources.
From page 169...
... 2nd ed. Madison, Wisc.: American Society of Agronomy.


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