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Cecil H. Wadleigh
Pages 306-319

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From page 307...
... In the 1920s he movecl to his father's 225-acre fruit en cl vegetable farm in MilforcI, Massachusetts. Characteristic of farm families, CeciT's father expected diligent work "only 99 percent of the time." Cecil preferred work in the orchards to that on the dairy farm if only because of the more pleasant byproducts.
From page 308...
... These institutions proclucecl many outstanding agricultural scientists cluring the 1930s in large part clue to the strength of their faculties. From 1933 to 1936 Cecil was a research assistant in plant physiology at Rutgers.
From page 309...
... western states chose soil salinity as their most serious crop procluction problem. Cecil was appointed senior chemist rather than a plant physiologist.
From page 310...
... the tools for which he became worIcl renowned. These methods macle possible basic studies on the osmotic en cl soil water relations of plants at the most funciamental thermodynamic level while generating valuable and immecliately useful information for farmers.
From page 311...
... There was a vigorous debate among plant and soil scientists about whether the deleterious effect of salinity upon plant growth was specific to each ion that contributed the total osmotic pressure of the soil (or nutrient) solution, or whether the effect was nonspecific and due almost solely to the osmotic effect.
From page 312...
... Following a series of papers, often in collaboration with other members of the Salinity Laboratory staff, WacIleigh showocl clefinitively that not only was it osmotic stress that was important in determining the effect of soil salinity upon plant growth but also, to a very remarkable first approximation, osmotic stress en cl soil moisture stress were aciclitive. This, combined with the knowlecige that whatever the climate, the relative effect of total stress (osmotic plus moisture)
From page 313...
... east, this time to Washington, D.C., to accept the position of heacl physiologist, Division of Sugar Plant Investigations in the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
From page 314...
... Cecil hacl an administrative style that couIcl best be clescribecl as unique. He couIcl be insistent in getting people to leave a perfectly happy research career en c!
From page 315...
... In retirement Cecil kept his interest in plant science. He maintainer!
From page 316...
... S National Committee for the International Hydrological Decade, National Academy of Sciences 1966-67 Selected a member of the Committee on Environmental Quality, Federal Council on Science and Technology, Executive Office of the President 1967 Presented the Distinguished Service Award, U.S.
From page 317...
... Organic acid content of corn plant as influenced by pH and substrate form of nitrogen supplied.
From page 318...
... The influence of calcium ion activity in water culture on the intake of cations by bean plants. Plant Physiol.
From page 319...
... 75: 78-87 1964 Fitting modern agriculture to water supply. In ASA Special Publication No.


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