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Definition of Germplasm
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Germplasm
Literary usage of Germplasm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genetics; an Introduction to the Study of Heredity by Herbert Eugene Walter (1922)
"it is apparent that only the "born" ones can be, which have their roots in the
germplasm whence the new individual arises, and that "achievements" and ..."
2. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"0154 Small Grains and Potato germplasm Research Unit Department of Agriculture,
Agricultural Research Service University of Idaho Aberdeen Research and ..."
3. Readings in Evolution, Genetics, and Eugenics by Horatio Hackett Newman (1921)
"If every individual regarded the germplasm he carries as a sacred trust, then it
would be the part of an awakened eugenic conscience to restrain that ..."
4. Genetics: An Introduction to the Study of Heredity by Herbert Eugene Walter (1913)
"The germplasm, on the contrary, is the immortal fragment freighted with the power
to duplicate the whole organism and which, barring accident, ..."
5. The Direction of Human Evolution by Edwin Grant Conklin (1922)
"Evolution Is Transformation of germplasm and Not of Developed Bodies of Animals
or Plants The only living bond between successive generations is found in ..."
6. Summary Proceedings of a Workshop on Cereal Yield Variability by P. B. R. Hazell (1986)
"13 CIMMYT Presentation: Yield Stability of CIMMYT Maize germplasm« HN Pham, SR
Waddington, and J. Crossa One important aim of the Maize Program of the ..."
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