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William L. Brown
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... 13io,qraphicat Memoirs VOLUME 70
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... effectiveness in conservation of plant genetic resources. He reinvigoratec!
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... Northern Flints) that, when hybriclizecI, gave rise to the moclern North American race (Corn Belt Dent)
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... jobs, accepting a position as geneticist in the Corn Breeding Department of the Pioneer Hi-Brec! Corn Company (which wouIc!
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... a research program on the cytology en c! evolutionary history of a Native American maize variety with the goal of restoring it to its ancestral form, for use by the tribe (the Eastern Cherokee)
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... Louis with appointments at Washington University en c! the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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... Throughout his entire career Brown's ideas about evolution and breeding were influenced by this aspect of Anderson's research and theory. He and Anderson were to work as a team for several years after Brown's graduation from Washington University, stimulated to do so by their mutual interest in the origins and categorization of maize varieties and races.
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... only seven other professional researchers, all of them engaged in highly practical activities such as breeding and testing of maize inbreds and hybrids. Brown soon developed a research program building on his training as a cytogeneticist.
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... of inspection trips to Pioneer corn brawling stations across the corn belt. Baker soon gave Brown responsibility for guicIance of several of the brawling stations, particularly those in the eastern and southern part of the United States.
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... rise in the company's research capacity primarily through aciclition of new plant breeders en c! support staff en c!
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... on genetic diversity en c! its consequences for plant brawling.
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... The Corn Belt Dent complex ("the common yellow clents") is the progenitor of tociay's U.S.
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... Wallace, a native Iowan, was secretary of agriculture for President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s, en c! then gave further service to the Roosevelt administration as vice-presiclent of the Uniter!
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... between the two scientists was their common interest in use of cytological markers, especially chromosome knobs, to classify races of maize. PUBLIC SERVICE CAREER Brown's rapid rise as an authority on genetic diversity en c!
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... While serving on the National Plant Genetic Resources Board, formed to make policy recommendations to USDA, Brown was a major force behinc! the boarcl's successful rec
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... Renewable Resources from 1982 to 198S, taking on this responsibility soon after retiring from active management cluties at Pioneer Hi-BrecI. As chair he brought about major NRC publications in the fields of sustainable agriculture and plant genetic resources en c!
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... Brown put some of his company's funcis behinc! his pronouncements on conservation of plant genetic resources.
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... en c! experimented to increase genetic diversity in crop plants, but in leaclership of such bellies as the USDA's National Plant Genetics Resources Board, in formation of the journal Diversity en c!
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... funcis. IMPORTANT HONORS AND MEDALS Fellow, American Society of Agronomy, 1970 Fellow, Iowa Academy of Science, 1970 Fellow, Drake University, 1970 Agronomic Service Award, American Society of Agronomy, 1979 Distinguished Fellow, Iowa Academy of Science, 1980 Distinguished Alumni Award, Bridgewater College, 1980 Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1980 Honorary Phi Beta Kappa, Drake University, 1981 President, Crop Science Society of America, 1982 Distinguished Economic Botanist, Society for Economic Botany, 1982 Distinguished Alumni Award, Washington University, 1983 Genetics and Plant Breeding Award for Industry, Crop Science Society of America, 1986 Henry Shaw Medal, Missouri Botanical Garden, 1986 Honorary D.Sc., Drake University, 1987 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1989 Honorary Ph.D., West Virginia University, 1989 WILLIAM L
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... The history of the common maize varieties of the United States Corn Belt. Agric.
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... In Crop Genetic Resources for Today and Tomorrow, International Biological Programme, vol.
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... The status, evolutionary significance and history of Eastern Cherokee maize. Maydica 37:29-39.


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