Open AccessNilsson‐Ehle and the development of plant breeding at Svalöf during the period 1900–1915
Author(s) -
ÅKERBERG ERIK
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
hereditas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1601-5223
pISSN - 0018-0661
DOI - 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1986.tb00633.x
Subject(s) - geneticist , mendelian inheritance , period (music) , biology , opposition (politics) , demography , law , genetics , political science , sociology , philosophy , politics , gene , aesthetics
The paper centres on the opposition raised against the modern combination breeding in plants after the rediscovery of the Mendelian laws. At the Svalöf Seed Association, the systematicist Hjalmar Nilsson and the geneticist Herman Nilsson‐Ehle represented differing attitudes to this new breeding technique during the period 1900–1915. In the light of an only recently available exchange of letters between Nilsson‐Ehle and geneticists and plant breeders from this period, Nilsson‐Ehle's views on plant breeding problems under debate at Svalöf and elsewhere during the years 1890–1910 are discussed.