George Harrison Shull (April 15, 1874 - September 28, 1954) was an eminent American plant geneticist. He was born in Clark Co. , Ohio, graduated from Antioch College in 1901 and from the University of Chicago in 1904, served as botanical expert to the Bureau of Plant Industry in 1903-04, and thenceforth was a botanical investigator of the Carnegie Institution at the Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. , giving special attention to the results of Luther Burbank's work.

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  • George Harrison Shull war ein US-amerikanischer Botaniker und Pflanzengenetiker. Sein offizielles botanisches Autorenkürzel lautet „Shull“. Shull entdeckte den Heterosis-Effekt beim Mais. Aufgrund seiner Entdeckung konnte der Ertrag bei der Maisproduktion um bis zu 50 % gesteigert werden. Heute kommt in wirtschaftlich arbeitenden Betrieben nur noch Hybrid-Mais zur Ansaat.
  • George Harrison Shull (April 15, 1874 - September 28, 1954) was an eminent American plant geneticist. He was born in Clark Co. , Ohio, graduated from Antioch College in 1901 and from the University of Chicago in 1904, served as botanical expert to the Bureau of Plant Industry in 1903-04, and thenceforth was a botanical investigator of the Carnegie Institution at the Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. , giving special attention to the results of Luther Burbank's work. Shull played an important role in the development of hybrid corn which had great impact upon global agriculture. As a geneticist he was working with corn plants and interested in pure breeds not for their economic value but for experiments in genetics. He produced corn breeds that bred true and then crossed these strains. The hybrid offspring of the sickly purebreds were vigorous and predictable. In short, an ideal economic corn resulted from a project motivated purely to advance science. For his work on corn, Shull was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1948 . He also described heterosis in maize in 1908 and made a number of other key discoveries in emerging field of genetics. Shull was the founder of the scientific journal Genetics. He was called George in distinction from his son Harrison Shull (1923–2003), also a distinguished scientist, specializing in the quantum mechanics of small-molecule electronic spectra. http://www. nap. edu/readingroom/books/biomems/hshull. pdf
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  • George Harrison Shull war ein US-amerikanischer Botaniker und Pflanzengenetiker. Sein offizielles botanisches Autorenkürzel lautet „Shull“. Shull entdeckte den Heterosis-Effekt beim Mais. Aufgrund seiner Entdeckung konnte der Ertrag bei der Maisproduktion um bis zu 50 % gesteigert werden. Heute kommt in wirtschaftlich arbeitenden Betrieben nur noch Hybrid-Mais zur Ansaat.
  • George Harrison Shull (April 15, 1874 - September 28, 1954) was an eminent American plant geneticist. He was born in Clark Co. , Ohio, graduated from Antioch College in 1901 and from the University of Chicago in 1904, served as botanical expert to the Bureau of Plant Industry in 1903-04, and thenceforth was a botanical investigator of the Carnegie Institution at the Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. , giving special attention to the results of Luther Burbank's work.
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