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An early scientific approach to heredity by the plant breeder Wilhelm Rimpau (1842‐1903)
Author(s) -
Meinel A.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
plant breeding
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.583
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1439-0523
pISSN - 0179-9541
DOI - 10.1046/j.1439-0523.2003.00873.x
Subject(s) - heredity , biology , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , genealogy , evolutionary biology , genetics , history , gene
Wilhelm Rimpau (1842–1903), independently of Gregor Mendel, observed all the regular patterns which are central to breeding methods with self‐pollinating plants and which were later interpreted in terms of Mendel's Laws of Inheritance. The different approaches of Rimpau and Mendel to heredity ‐ due to their different objectives ‐laid the foundations over the course of the late 19th century of two new promising disciplines: modern plant breeding and genetics.