Sears, Ernest R. (1910-1991), Papers, 1928-1991 (C3892)

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INTRODUCTION

The professional papers of Ernest R. Sears, world-renowned wheat cytogeneticist associated with the University of Missouri from 1936 until his death in 1991. The papers consist of correspondence, reprints of his publications, reports, manuscripts, research notes, speeches, photographs, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous items.

DONOR INFORMATION

The Ernest R. Sears Papers were donated to the University of Missouri by Sears's colleague, J. Perry Gustafson, on 7 February 1992 (Accession No. 5139). Additions to the papers were made on 11 February 1992 (Accession No. 5144) and 26 April 1994 (Accession No. 5424).

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Ernest Robert Sears, son of Jacob P. and Ada Estella Sears, was born 15 October 1910 in Bethel, Oregon, where he graduated from a rural one-room high school in 1928. He obtained a B.S. degree in Agriculture from Oregon State University in 1932, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Genetics from Harvard University in 1934 and 1936. Upon graduation he married Caroline F. Eichorn and accepted a position as a geneticist with the United States Department of Agriculture at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He remained at the university, working on the origin, evolution, and cytogenetics of wheat for the next 55 years.

Over the years Sears became one of the most respected names in wheat cytogenetics in the world. Probably his most important early achievement was to develop, over a 15-year period, a complete series of aneuploids--nullisomics, monosomics, trisomics and tetrasomics--for all 21 chromosomes of wheat. Previously, geneticists had made little progress with common wheat, a hexaploid whose mostly triplicated genes tend to mask each other. His aneuploids made it possible to study each chromosome separately to analyze its function. From the beginning, Sears made it a policy to maintain and distribute these stocks to anyone in the world who wanted them.

Sears also pioneered methods of transferring desirable genes from wild relatives to cultivated wheat in order to increase wheat's resistance to various insects and diseases. Breeding disease resistance into the most important food crop in the world had far-reaching economic and social effects. For the application of these techniques, including x-radiation, to transfer leaf-rust resistance from a wild grass to wheat, he received the 1958 Hoblitzelle national prize for agricultural science.

Also in 1958, Sears and his student Masasuke Okamoto discovered independently from--but at the same time as--British scientist Ralph Riley and his colleague that chromosome pairing in wheat is genetically controlled. Consequently, the chromosomes of many other species, not ordinarily able to pair and recombine with those of wheat, could be induced to do so by removing chromosome 5B from commercially-grown hybrids. For this discovery, Sears and Riley shared the 1986 Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture, an honor considered second only to the Nobel Prize.

Although Sears received numerous honors in Missouri, Oregon, Canada, India, Germany and Israel, he remained modest about his accomplishments. He credited part of his success to the good fortune of working in his youth with noted corn geneticist Lewis J. Stadler, and Nobel prize winner Barbara McClintock. He also felt he owed a great deal to his "closest collaborator" in research, his wife of 40 years, Lotti M. Steinitz-Sears, a geneticist he met at MU and married in 1950.

The Searses had a son, John, and daughters, Barbara and Kathleen. Sears also had a son Michael from his previous marriage. The family frequently played host to numerous visiting scientists and graduate students, all of whom were beneficiaries of the unselfish sharing of the Searses' considerable knowledge, support and expert criticism.

After his retirement from the USDA in 1980, Sears continued to work at his office in Curtis Hall and in his nearby greenhouses on the university campus until his death on 15 February 1991.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Ernest R. Sears Papers consist of correspondence, reprints of articles, reports, manuscripts, research notes, speeches, clippings, photographs and miscellaneous items detailing the professional life of a world-renowned wheat cytogeneticist. The Papers are arranged into two series, Correspondence and Professional Achievements.

The Correspondence series, arranged alphabetically by correspondent, covers the years 1936-1991 and includes both incoming and outgoing correspondence. The correspondents range from fellow scientists and students to professional journal editors and firms with which Sears did business. Since Professor Sears was so generous with his seed stocks as well as with his knowledge and advice, the majority of incoming letters consist of requests of one form or another. There are numerous requests for seeds, reprints of his articles and recommendations for various professional positions, as well as petitions for Sears to visit and lecture all over the world or to allow graduate students and post-doctoral scientists to visit and work with him.

There are also many instances of exchange of scientific information, including graphs, statistics and photographs, as well as scientific discussion. Those folders that contain a fair amount of interchange of scientific information are marked with an asterisk (*) in the folder list following this scope and content note. Several folders of correspondence concerning reviews of possible manuscripts for professional journals are included under the name of the organization and its journal, such as the National Academy of Science, Proceedings.

The Professional Achievements series, documenting the various activities and accomplishments of Sears's professional life, is subdivided into:

The publications, arranged chronologically from 1939 to 1988, consist of reprints of articles, research bulletins, and abstracts written by Sears, either as single author or in conjunction with others. Although this section does not contain copies of every one of Sears's publications, the majority are included. Lists of all of his publications may be found in folders 841 and 842. The manuscripts, arranged alphabetically by title, include early drafts of possible publications as well as some correspondence with publishers and/or collaborating authors concerning the progress of the manuscripts. Not all of Sears's publications from the previous section have corresponding manuscripts in this one.

The research material section is arranged alphabetically by topic and consists of research notes, abstracts, newspaper clippings, photographs and other material used by Sears in various aspects of his research. Several photographs of wheat chromosomes and hybrid plants illustrate some of the steps of his research. Also included are several folders of research statistics, especially those relating to the breeding of rust resistance into wheat.

The trips and conferences section, arranged chronologically, includes travel itineraries, conference programs and brochures, papers given at some of the meetings, a few photographs of the participants, and some correspondence, usually relating to the planning of the affair. Also included in this section are several small notebooks containing details such as departure and arrival time, addresses, phone numbers and other reminders. Passports and passport information and photos for Ernie and Lotti Sears are included as well.

The speeches section is arranged chronologically, as is the next section of material relating to some of the awards Sears received. Some awards relating to a specific trip--such as the Wolf Foundation Prize he received in Israel in 1986--may be found in the trips and conferences section. At the end of the speeches section are several certificates and news clippings publicizing his awards.

The organizations section, the largest section in the Professional Achievements series, pertains to the various organizations to which Sears belonged, as well as those by which he was employed, the United States Department of Agriculture and the University of Missouri. Arranged alphabetically, the section includes reports, newsletters, catalogues, and other records of the groups. The folders containing material about the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization include several catalogues of international lists of genetic stocks, plant breeders and plant collections covering the years 1949-1967. The USDA material consists of annual and station reports from Sears to his superiors, as well as reports from the department to its employees. It also contains office financial records and other employee records with biographical, insurance, medical, and salary information. The University of Missouri material includes information on actual and prospective graduate students and post-doctoral scientists who wanted to work with Sears.

The section of photographs contains pictures of Ernie and Lotti Sears and their many colleagues around the world, dating from around 1940 to 1990. Two folders of miscellaneous items complete the series.

FOLDER LIST

Correspondence Series

*Denotes correspondence containing exchange of scientific information.

f. 1Aamodt-Acevedo
f. 2-7Acosta
f. 8Adler-Agronomy Journal
f. 9-10Agronomy Journal
f. 11Ahloowalia-Akerberg
f. 12Alamuddeen-Allan
f. 13Allard-Allen
f. 14-15Alonso
f. 16Altevogt-Altosaar
f. 17-18American Journal of Botany
f. 19American Society of Agronomy
f. 20Anand-Andersen
f. 21Anderson, E.
f. 22Anderson, J.-Anthony
f. 23Apirion-Appels
f. 24Armstrong-Ashri
f. 25-27Athwal
f. 28Atkins
f. 29Atomic Energy Commission
f. 30Atsmon-Auerbach
*f. 31-33Ausemus
f. 34Autran-Aziz
f. 35Baenziger-Baker
f. 36Baker
f. 37Bakshi-Banks
f. 38Barabas
f. 39Barber-Barnett
f. 40Barr-Bauer
f. 41-44Bayles
f. 45Beadle-Beckler
f. 46Bell-Benito
f. 47Bennett-Berry
f. 48Bertramson-Bever
f. 49Bhaduri-Bhatia
f. 50Bhattachayrra-Bhowal
f. 51Bielig
f. 52Bietz-Bitzer
f. 53Blaine-Blumenschein
f. 54Bochev-Boke
f. 55Bolen
f. 56Bollinger-Borlaug
f. 57Borojevic-von Borstel
f. 58Botanical Society
f. 59Bowden-Bowen
f. 60Boyle-Bozzini
f. 61Boyd
f. 62Bra-Bres
f. 63Bret-Brez
*f. 64-68Briggle
f. 69-70Briggs, F.
f. 71Briggs,R.-Brink
f. 72Briskey-Brown, M.
f. 73Brown, S.-Bryner
f. 74Budin-Burgain
f. 75-78Burnham, C.
f. 79Burnham, M.-Busch
f. 80-82Business firms
f. 83deBuyser-Byrd
f. 84Caldecott-Caldwell, J.
f. 85Caldwell, R.
f. 86Caldwell, R.-Calvi
f. 87Camara
f. 88Camara
f. 89Cameron, D.-J.
f. 90Cameron, R.-Campos
f. 91Canadian Journal of Genetics
f. 92Canas-Carson
f. 93Carter
f. 94Cartwright-deCastro
f. 95Catcheside-Cauderon
f. 96Cave-Cenoz
f. 97Ceoloni
f. 98Chae-Chang, C.
f. 99-107Chang, T.
f. 108Chantal-Chavdarov
f. 109Cheadle-Chin
f. 110Choe-Chu, O.
f. 111Chu, Y.-Chute
f. 112deCillis-Clausen
f. 113Cleland
f. 114Coe-Cole
f. 115Colin-Consolazio
f. 116Cook
f. 117Cooper-Cracium
f. 118-119Craddock
f. 120Creech-Crosby, A.
f. 121Crosby, M.-Culpepper
*f. 122Curtis-Cutler
*f. 123Dabral-Dabrowska
f. 124Dabrowska-Darroch
*f. 125Darvey
f. 126Darvey
f. 127Daskalov-Davis, E.
f. 128Davis, R.-Deatherage
f. 129Decker-Demerec
f. 130Dempster-Deng
f. 131Denman-Dezendorf
f. 132Dhaliwal-Dimler
f. 133Dodge-Drew
*f. 134-148Driscoll
f. 149Dropkin-Dunn, G.
f. 150Dunn, L.-Duvick
*f. 151-153Dvorak
f. 154Dwyer-Dyck
f. 155East-Egan
f. 156Eigsti-Eisenstark
f. 157-160Eizenga
f. 161Elder-Emery
f. 162Endrizzi-Everson
*f. 163-168Faberge
f. 169Falk-Favilli
f. 170Favret
f. 171Fedak-Feillet
*f. 172-185Feldman
f. 186Fellner-Ferwerda
f. 187Ficsor-Fiske
f. 188Flanagan-Fogel
f. 189-190Food and Agriculture Organization
f. 191Foote-Franconi
*f. 192Frankel
f. 193Franks-Fryer
f. 194-195Fu
f. 196Fujigaki-Furuta
f. 197Galaso-Galinat
*f. 198Galinsky-Gallun
f. 199Gandhi-Garber
*f. 200Garcia
f. 201Garcia-Gavazzi
f. 202-206Gaul
f. 207Geis-Genetics
f. 208-212Genetics
f. 213Genetics Congress
f. 214-217Genetics Society
f. 218Gennyr-Gerstel
f. 219Gfeller-Gibson
f. 220Giddings
f. 221Gilbertson-Gill, B.
f. 222-229Gill, Bikram
f. 230Gill, K.-Giorgi
f. 231Glass-Goldmaker
f. 232-233Goldman
f. 234Golub-Goud
f. 235Gough-Govindaswami
f. 236Gowans-Gowen
f. 237Graham-Grama
f. 238Grant-Graybosch
*f. 239Green-Gregory
f. 240Grell-Grubb
f. 241Guedes-Gustafson, F
f. 242Gustafson, J. Perry
f. 243Gustafsson-Gyarfas
f. 244Ha-Haines
f. 245Hair
f. 246Hale-Hallauer
f. 247Halloran
f. 248Hamburger-Hanzel
f. 249Hardy-Harriman
*f. 250-256Hart
f. 257Hartman-Harvard Club
f. 258Harvey-Hassanien
f. 259Hatchett-Hearne
f. 260Hebert-Hehn
f. 261Heiner-Hendricks
f. 262Hermesen-Heslot
*f. 263-265Heyne
f. 266Higgs
f. 267Hill-Hirono
f. 268Hoisington-Hoover
*f. 269Horsfall-Hotchkiss
f. 270Hotels
f. 271Hsam-Hu
*f. 272Hubbard-Hurd
*f. 273Huskins-Huttrer
f. 274-278Hyde
f. 279Hyland-Hyslop
f. 280Ichikawa-International
f. 281Ionescu-Irwin
f. 282Islam
f. 283Islam-Ittu
f. 284Jaama-Jahier
f. 285Jahn-Janeson
*f. 286Jauhar-Jellen
*f. 287-289Jenkins, B.
f. 290Jenkins, G.-M.
f. 291Jensen-John
f. 292Johnson, B.
f. 293Johnson, D.-T.
*f. 294-296Johnston
f. 297Johri-Jones, D.
*f. 298Jones, E.
*f. 299Jones, F.-J.
f. 300Jones, M.-Jong
f. 301-302Joppa
f. 303Jordansky-Joudrier
f. 304-306Journals
f. 307Judd-Kalton
f. 308Kaltsikes
*f. 309Kam-Karrer
f. 310Kasarda
f. 311Katayamas-Kelner
f. 312Kempanna-Kesavan
f. 313Khan-Kiehl
f. 314Kihara
f. 315Kilpatrick-Kimball
*f. 316-321Kimber
f. 322Kindiger-Kiss
f. 323Kitani-Knobloch
*f. 324-327Knott
*f. 328Knowles-Kobyliansky
f. 329Koch-Kondo
*f. 330-335Konzak
f. 336Koo-Kritzinger
f. 337Krivchenko-Kronstad
f. 338-339Kuckuck
f. 340Kugler-Kushnir
f. 341Kuspira
f. 342LaCour-Lamb
f. 343Lange-Lark
*f. 344Larsen-Larson
f. 345-351Larson
f. 352Larter
f. 353Laubscher-Law
f. 354Law
f. 355Law-Laxaro
f. 356Le-Lee
f. 357Lefevre-Lelley, J.
f. 358Lelley, T.
f. 359Leonard-Li, C.
*f. 360Li, H.
f. 361Li, S.-Li, W.
f. 362Liang
f. 363Libby-Liu
*f. 364Livers-Livingston
*f. 365-382Loegering
f. 383Loesch-Loiselle
f. 384-386Longwell (see also Crosby)
*f. 387Lonnquist-Lou
f. 388Love, A.-H.
f. 389Love, R.-Lucas
*f. 390Lucken-Luig
*f. 391-392Lukaszewski
f. 393Lukaszewski-Luppert
*f. 394Ma-Maan
*f. 395-399Maan
f. 400McBride-McCall
f. 401McCalla-McClintock
f. 402McClure-McCormick
f. 403McCracken-MacDonald
f. 404MacEwan-McEwen
*f. 405-413McFadden
f. 414McFarland-McGinnis
*f. 415Macindoe-McIntosh
*f. 416-423McIntosh
*f. 424-426Mac Key
f. 427MacMasters-McNeal
*f. 428McQuade
f. 429MacVicar-Maguire
f. 430Mahaffey-Maling
f. 431Mange-Mao
f. 432Marais
f. 433Marimuthio-Martinez
f. 434Maruyama-Matsubayashi
f. 435Matsumura
f. 436Matzinger-Maystrenko
f. 437Maystrenko-Mazzone
f. 438Meguro-Merkle
f. 439Meshcherov-Mettin
*f. 440-442Metzger
f. 443Meyer-Mifflin
f. 444Miller, D.-F.
f. 445Miller, M.-T.
f. 446Millet-Mock
f. 447Modena-Moriber
*f. 448-453Morris
f. 454Morrison, B.
f. 455Morrison, I.-L.
f. 456Moseman-Mrak
f. 457Muhamed-Mukherji
f. 458Muller
f. 459Muntzing-Muramatsu
f. 460-465Muramatsu
f. 466Murata-Murphy
f. 467Murray-Myers
f. 468Nabors-Natarajan
f. 469Nath
f. 470Nath
f. 471-481National Academy of Science
f. 482-490NAS, Proceedings, reviews, 1965-1987
f. 491-505NAS, Proceedings, reviews, 1978-1990
f. 506-508NAS, misc.
f. 509-511National Institutes of Health
f. 512-525National Science Foundation
f. 526Naylor-Nelson
f. 527Neuriter-Nguyen
f. 528Nichols-Nilan
f. 529-530Nishikawa
f. 531Nishio-Nishiyama
f. 532Nityagopal-Nowick
f. 533Nuffer-O'Dell
f. 534-546Okamoto
f. 547Oldemeyer-Olsson
f. 548-554O'Mara
f. 555Onuorah-Owens
f. 556dePace-Palmer
f. 557Palotta-Paquet
f. 558Parey
f. 559Park-Parker, J.
f. 560Parker, M.
f. 561Paroda-Paulson
f. 562Pawlisch-Perak
f. 563Percival
f. 564Pereau-Peterson, P.
*f. 565-566Peterson, R.
f. 567Petrovik-Pickering
f. 568Piech-Pienaar
f. 569Pigg-Pissarev
f. 570Planchon-Potocanac
f. 571Poulson-Pugsley
f. 572Qi-Qualset
f. 573Qualset-Quiros
f. 574-575Quisenberry
f. 576-578Radiation Botany
f. 579Rai-Rajendra
f. 580Rajhathy
f. 581Rajki-Ramulu
f. 582Randolph-Rao
*f. 583-585Rao, Prabhakara
f. 586-590Rao, Shama
f. 591Raper-Raven
f. 592Rawal-Reddi
f. 593Reddy
f. 594Redei
f. 595Reed-Reisner
*f. 596-602Reitz
f. 603Rhoades
*f. 604Richards-Richey
*f. 605Rick-Rickett
f. 606Rife-Riley
*f. 607-612Riley
f. 613Rillo-Robbelen
f. 614-615Robbelen
*f. 616Roberts-Robertson
f. 617-618Robinson
f. 619Rockhold-Rodenhiser
*f. 620-625Rodenhiser
f. 626Roelfs-Rogler
*f. 627Roman
f. 628Rosen-Ross, H.
f. 629Ross, J.
f. 630Rottman-Royer
f. 631-632Rubenstein
f. 633Rudorf
f. 634Rudorf-Ruebenbauer
f. 635Runge
f. 636Rusmini-Rybalka
f. 637Sachan-St. Benc
f. 638Sakamoto-Sallee
*f. 639Salmon
f. 640Salser-Sampaio
*f. 641-645Sampayo
f. 646Sampson-Sando
f. 647Sanz-Sapra
f. 648Sarkar-Sasakuma
*f. 649Sauer-Savitsky
*f. 650Sax
f. 651Scandalios-Schafer
f. 652Schaller, C.
f. 653Schaller, L.-Schiemann
f. 654Schlegel-Schlehuber
f. 655Schlessinger-Schmidt
*f. 656Schmidt
f. 657Schmitt-Schwenk
f. 658Science-Scrivener
*f. 659Sears-Sebesta
f. 660-661Seed storage
f. 662Sehgal-Shah
*f. 663-665Shands, Hazel
f. 666Shands, Henry
*f. 667Shands, R.
*f. 668Shank-Sharma
*f. 669Sharman
f. 670Sharp-Shepherd, K.
*f. 671-672Shepherd, K.
f. 673Shepherd, R.-Sheybani
f. 674Shifriss-Siddiqui
f. 675-677Sigma Xi
f. 678Silow-Simonet
*f. 679Simpson-Sing
*f. 680Singh, D.-Ka
f. 681Singh, K.B.-M.
f. 682Singh, P.-Singleton
f. 683Skinner-Skrdla
*f. 684Smart-Smirnov
*f. 685Smith, D.
*f. 686-687Smith, G.
f. 688Smith, H.S.
*f. 689-690Smith, Harold
f. 691Smith, L.
f. 692Smith, misc.
f. 693Snape-Snyder, L.A.
*f. 694Snyder, L.A.
f. 695Snyder, L.H.-Somers
*f. 696Somerville-Sosinov
f. 697Spaldon-Spiess
f. 698Sprague-Srivatava
f. 699Stadler, D.-L.
f. 700Staikov-Staudt
f. 701Stebbins
f. 702Stefanowska-Steinitz
*f. 703Stelly-Stephens
f. 704-705Stephens
f. 706Stephenson-Strauss
f. 707Stubbe-Stubbs, A.
f. 708Stubbs, R.-Suemoto
f. 709Sulinowski-Sun
*f. 710Sunderman-Swaminathan
f. 711Swaminathan-Swenson, G.
*f. 712Swenson, S.-Szota
f. 713Taeg-Takahashi
f. 714Takimoto-Tatum, E.
f. 715-717Tatum, L.
f. 718Taylor-Thomas, H.
f. 719Thomas, J.-Thombre
f. 720Thomson-Threlkeld
f. 721Timothy-Ting
f. 722Tomes-Tozu
f. 723Trelease-Tsuchiya
f. 724-726Tsuchiya
f. 727Tsuchiya-Tsujimoto
*f. 728-729Tsunewaki
f. 730Tucker-Turesson
f. 731Uchida-Ullrich
f. 732-738USDA
*f. 739-742Unrau
f. 743Upadhya-Urich
f. 744Vaarama-Vardi
f. 745Vega-Verama
f. 746Verma-Vida
f. 747Viegas
f. 748Vietmeyer-Waddell
*f. 749-750Wagenaar
*f. 751Wagner, M.
f. 752Wagner, R.
*f. 753-759Waines
f. 760Walag-Wall, A.
f. 761Wall, J.-Walters
f. 762Wang, A.-T.
*f. 763Wang, W.-von Wangenheim
f. 764-765Ward
f. 766Ward-Warmke
f. 767-770Washington
f. 771Watanabe-Watson
f. 772Weatherspoon-Weil
f. 773Weir-Wellhausen
*f. 774-775Wells
f. 776Welsh-Whaley
*f. 777Whelan
f. 778Whitaker-Whiteside
f. 779Wiatroszak-Wiebe
*f. 780Wienhues-Wilcox
f. 781Wilde-Williams, J.
*f. 782-783Williams, N.
f. 784Williams, W.-Wilson, K.
*f. 785Wilson, M.-Wolfe
f. 786Wolff-Wooley
f. 787-789Worstell
*f. 790Worzella-Wright
f. 791Wu-Wyndham
f. 792Yabuno-Yamashita
f. 793Yamashita
f. 794Yankovitch-Young
*f. 795Young-Yu
f. 796Zabel-Zeller
*f. 797-800Zeller
f. 801Zeller-Zennyoji
*f. 802Zeven-Zhang
f. 803Zhirov-Zou
f. 804-805Zuber
f. 806Miscellaneous

Professional Achievements Series

Publications

f. 807-840Reprints of articles, research bulletins and abstracts written by E.R. Sears
f. 8071939:
"Amphidiploids in the Triticinae Induced by Colchicine."
Monosomes, trisomes, and segmental interchanges from a haploid of Triticum vulgare.
"Cytogenetic Studies with Polyploid Species of Wheat. I. Chromosomal Aberrations in the Progeny of a Haploid of Triticum vulgare."
f. 8081940:
Monofactorially conditioned inviability of an intergeneric hybrid in the Triticinae.
f. 8091941:
Nullisomics in Triticum vulgare.
"Amphidiploids in the Seven-Chromosome Triticinae."
"Chromosome Pairing and Fertility in Hybrids and Amphidiploids in the Triticinae."
f. 8101944:
"The Amphidiploids Aegilops cylindrica x Triticum durum and A. ventricosa x T. durum and Their Hybrids with T. aestivum."
"Inviability of Intergeneric Hybrids Involving Triticum monococcum and T. aegilopoides."
"Cytogenetic Studies with Polyploid Species of Wheat. II. Additional Chromosomal Aberrations in Triticum vulgare."
The artificial synthesis of Triticum spelta.
f. 8111946:
"The Origin of Triticum spelta and Its Free-Threshing Hexaploid Relatives."
Isochromosomes and telocentrics in Triticum vulgare.
The sphaerococcum gene in wheat.
f. 8121947:
"The Genome Approach in Radical Wheat Breeding."
f. 8131948:
"The Cytology and Genetics of the Wheats and Their Relatives."
Nullisomic Analysis of stem-rust resistance in Triticum vulgare var. Timstein.
f. 8141950:
"Un Crosoma Dicentrico Transmisible en Trigo."
f. 8151952:
"Misdivision of Univalents in Common Wheat."
"The Behavior of Isochromosomes and Telocentrics in Wheat."
"A Transmissible Dicentric Chromosome."
Homoeologous chromosomes in Triticum aestivum.
f. 8161953:
"Addition of the Genome of Haynaldia villosa to Triticum aestivum."
"Chiasmata and Crossing Over in a Dicentric Chromosome in Wheat."
"Nullisomic Analysis in Common Wheat."
f. 8171954:
"The Aneuploids of Common Wheat."
f. 8181956:
"The Systematics, Cytology and Genetics of Wheat."
Neatby's virescent.
Structural relationships between non-homologous chromosomes.
The B genome of Triticum.
"The Transfer of Leaf-Rust Resistance from Aegilops umbellulata to Wheat."
"Identification of Chromosomes Carrying Genes for Stem Rust Resistance in Four Varieties of Wheat."
f. 8191957:
"Ultraviolet and X-Ray Induced Chromosomal Aberrations in Wheat."
"Genetic and Structural Relationships of Non-Homologous Chromosomes in Wheat."
Effect of chromosomes XII and XVI on the action of Neatby's virescent.
Intergenomic Chromosome Relationships in Hexaploid Wheat.
"The Aneuploids of Common Wheat."
f. 8201959-1962:
Neatby's virescent, a chlorophyll aberration in common wheat
Inducing the transfer of hairy neck from rye to wheat.
"Identification of the Chromosome Carrying the Martin Gene for Resistance of Wheat to Bunt."
Identification of the wheat chromosome carrying leaf-rust resistance from Aegilops umbellulata.
A pollen-killing gene in wheat.
"Chromosomes Involved in Translocations Obtained from Haploids of Common Wheat."
The use of telocentric chromosomes in linkage mapping.
f. 8211963:
"Distorted Inheritance of Stem-Rust Resistance of Timstein Wheat Caused by a Pollen-Killing Gene."
"Nullisomics in Tetraploid Wheat."
Gene Evolution in Polyploid Wheat.
The Nature of a Spontaneous Transfer of Hairy Neck from Rye to Wheat.
The Mutation Process in Hexaploid Wheat.
f. 8221964:
"Chemical Mutagenesis in Triticum aestivum."
"Mapping of a Wheat-Rye Translocation."
f. 8231966:
"Nullisomic-Tetrasomic Combinations in Hexaploid Wheat."
"Relationships Among Stem-Rust Genes on Wheat Chromosomes 2B, 4B, and 6B."
"Somatic Association in Triticum aestivum."
"Linkage of Resistance to Erysiphe graminis f. sp.tritici (Pm3) and Hairy Glume (Hg) on Chromosome 1A of Wheat."
"Chromosome Mapping With the Aid of Telocentrics."
f. 8241967:
"Induced Transfer of Hairy Neck from Rye to Wheat."
"Genetic Suppression of Homoeologous Pairing in Wheat Breeding."
f. 8251968:
"Mapping of Stem-Rust Genes Sr9 and Sr16 of Wheat."
"Relationships of Chromosomes 2A, 2B, and 2D With Their Rye Homoeologue."
f. 8261969:
"Wheat Cytogenetics."
"Studies of Isozyme Patterns in Nullisomic-Tetrasomic Combinations of Hexaploid Wheat."
f. 8271970-1971:
"Sr9d, a Gene in Hope Wheat for Reaction to Puccinia graminis tritici."
"Ethyl Methanesulfonate-Induced Chlorophyll Mutations in Triticum aestivum."
Individual Addition of the Chromosomes of 'Imperial' Rye to Wheat.
f. 8281972:
"The Nature of Mutation in Hexaploid Wheat"
"Chromosome Engineering in Wheat"
"Reduced Proximal Crossing-Over in Telocentric Chromosomes of Wheat"
f. 8291973:
Agropyron-Wheat Transfers Induced By Homoeologous Pairing." "Genetic Analysis of Rye Chromosomes Added to Wheat."
Translocation through union of newly formed telocentric chromosomes
"The Gene for Low Reaction to Puccinia graminis tritici in the Thatcher-3B Substitution Line."
f. 8301974-1975:
Telocentric Chromosomes in Wheat and Their Uses. "The Wheats and Their Relatives."
A Triticum timopheevii Chromosome Homoeologous to T. aestivum Chromosome 6B.
An induced homeologous-pairing mutant in Triticum aestivum.
f. 8311976:
"A Synthetic Hexaploid Wheat With Fragile Rachis."
"Determination of the Chromosomal Location of a Glutamate Oxaloacetate Transaminase Structural Gene Using Triticum-Agropyron Translocations."
"Genetic Control of Chromosome Pairing in Wheat."
f. 8321977:
"The Origin and Future of Wheat."
"An Induced Mutant With Homoeologous Pairing in Common Wheat."
"Analysis of Wheat-Agropyron Recombinant Chromosomes."
f. 8331978:
"The Telocentric Chromosomes of Common Wheat."
f. 8341980-1881:
"Genetic Control of Disease Expression in Stem Rust of Wheat."
"Transfer of Alien Genetic Material to Wheat."
"The Wild Gene Resources of Wheat."
f. 8351982:
"A Wheat Mutation Conditioning an Intermediate Level of Homoeologous Chromosome Pairing."
"The Transfer of Short Segment of Alien Chromosomes to Wheat."
"Elimination of an Undesirable Trait for an Alien Translocation Line Induced by Homoeologous Pairing."
f. 8361983:
"The Transfer to Wheat of Interstititial Segments of Alien Chromosomes."
"Assignment of Genome Symbols in the Triticeae."
"Mapping of the Agropyron Segment of Wheat-Alien 7D/7Ag Transfers of 8 and 10."
"Transferring an Alien Segment to an Interstitial Position in a Wheat Chromosome."
"The Role of Plant Genetics in the 21st Century."
f. 8371984:
"Mutations in Wheat That Raise the Level of Meiotic Chromosome Pairing."
"The History of Chinese Spring Wheat."
A Novel Method for the Detection of Somatic Aneuploidy in Intact Leaves of Hexaploid Wheat
Genetical and Cytological Identification of Nondisjunction and Deletion by a Rapid Assay With Hexaploid Wheat.
"Professor Hitoshi Kihara."
f. 8381986:
"Failure of Centric Fusion of Selected Wheat Telosomes."
"Locating the Agropyron Segment in Wheat-Agropyron transfer no. 12."
"Prospects For Improvement of Wheat Through Transfer of Alien Genetic Material."
"Wheat Aneuploids Then and Now."
f. 8391988:
"History of the Chinese Spring Aneuploids."
"A Line With All B-Genome Chromosomes Double-Ditelosomic."
"Genomic Relationships in Thinopyrum."
f. 840Miscellaneous publications
f. 841-842Lists of publications
f. 843Citation references, 1937-1966

Manuscripts

f. 844-878Manuscripts
f. 844"Analysis of Wheat-Agropyron Recombinant Chromosomes"
f. 845"Combined Effect of Two Contrasting Genes Regulating Chromosome Pairing in Wheat"
"Determination of the Chromosomal Location of a Glutamate Oxaloacetate Transaminase Structural Gene Using Triticum-Agropyron Translocations"
f. 846"Effect of the Mutation ph2 on Pairing of Triticum aestivum Chromosomes 4A and 4B with T. monococcum"
f. 847"Elimination of an Undesirable Trait from an Alien Translocation Line By Induced Homoeologous Pairing"
f. 848-849"Genetic Control of Chromosome Pairing in Wheat"
f. 850"The Genetic Control of Disease Expression in Stem Rust of Wheat"
"The History of Chinese Spring Wheat"
f. 851"An Induced Mutant with Homoeologous Pairing in Common Wheat"
f. 852"Mutations in Wheat That Raise the Level of Meiotic Chromosome Pairing"
The Origin and Future of Wheat"
f. 853"Recent Genetic Research in Its Relation to Agriculture"
f. 854"Reduced Proximal Crossing-Over in Telocentric Chromosomes of Wheat"
f. 855-857"The Relationship Between Chiasmata and Crossing Over in Triticum Aestivum"
f. 858-862"The Role of Cytogenetics in Crop Breeding"
f. 863"A Synthetic Hexaploid Wheat With Fragile Rachis"
f. 864-865"The Telocentric Chromosomes of Common Wheat"
f. 866"Transfer of Alien Genetic Material to Wheat"
f. 867"The Transfer of Short Segments of Alien Chromosomes to Wheat"
f. 868"A Triticum timopheevii Chromosome Homoeologous to T. aestivum Chromosome 6B"
f. 869"Uses of Wheat Aneuploids"
f. 870-872"Utilization of Wild Gene Resources in the Improvement of Wheat"
f. 873"A Wheat Mutation Conditioning an Intermediate level of Homoeologous Pairing"
f. 874-877"The Wheats and Their Relatives"
f. 878"X-Ray-Induced Elimination of an Undesirable Character From an Alien Translocation in Wheat"

Research Material

f. 879-885Abstracts of literature
f. 886-891Crossing data
f. 892-894Gene nomenclature
f. 895-897Gramineae hybrids
f. 898-899Haynaldia
f. 900-901Japanese seed collection
f. 902-911Photographs of wheat chromosomes and hybrid plants
f. 912Photomicrography records
f. 913-927Research proposals
f. 928Report reviews
f. 929-935Rust data
f. 936-937Science clippings
f. 938-939Sex in plants
f. 940Smut data
f. 941Statistical work
f. 942Transfer performance
f. 943Triticum vulgare data
f. 944-949Miscellaneous research notes

Trips and Conferences

f. 950-9511950, American Society of Agronomy
f. 9521956, Brookhaven Symposium on Genetics and Plant Breeding
f. 953-9561958, First International Wheat Genetics Symposium; Italian and Scandinavian trips
f. 957-9581962, Genetics Today Symposium, MU
f. 959-9611963, Second International Wheat Genetics Symposium, Japan trip
f. 962-9661964, ASA Visiting Scientist Program; 10th International Botanical Congress; Oxford Chromosome Conference; Plant Breeding Symposium
f. 967-9711966, International Symposium on Genetics; Cytogenetics workshop
f. 9721967, European Wheat Aneuploid Co-operative (EWAC)
f. 973-9761968, 12th International Conference of Genetics; Third International Wheat Genetics Symposium; Rockefeller Foundation Conference on Hybridization
f. 977-9781969, Stadler Symposium; 11th Botanical Congress
f. 979-9811970, EWAC; Symposium on Evolution in Plants; Cereal Chemists Symposium; Gottingen, Germany
f. 982-9831972, Stadler Symposium; 12th International Symposium on Basic Biology
f. 984-9871973, Fourth International Wheat Genetics Symposium; 13th International Genetics Congress; Conference on Genetic Control of Meiosis
f. 9881973-1974, Sigma Xi Lecturship
f. 989-9901974, Third EWAC Conference
f. 991-9941975, 12th International Botanical Congress; USDA Agricultural Research Service North Central Region Scientist Evaluation Panel
f. 9951976, Society of Economic Botany
f. 996-10001977, European Association for Research on Plant Breeding (EUCARPIA); Genetics Society of Canada annual meeting; Symposium on Plant Genetics; Cereal Chemists
f. 1001-10051978, Fifth International Wheat Genetics Symposium; 14th International Genetics Congress; Agronomy Society
f. 10061979, Polyploidy Symposium
f. 10071980, 15th Hard Red Winter Wheat Conference
f. 1008-10101981, Workshop on Wheat and Barley Breeding and Cultivation, Israel
f. 1011-10131982, Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, England, MASUA Lectures
f. 1014-10211983, Genetics Society Travel Awards; Sixth International Wheat Genetics Symposium; 15th InternationalGenetics Congress
f. 1021-10241985, Israel trip; South Africa lectures
f. 1025-10361986, Wolf Foundation; North American Genetics Workshop; U.S.-China Distinguished Scholar Exchange Program; First International Symposium on Chromosome Engineering in Plants
f. 1037-10391988, Seventh International Wheat Genetics Symposium
f. 1040-10421989, Stadler Symposium; National Plant Germplasm Committee Meeting
f. 1043-10491990, Second International Symposium on Chromosome Engineering in Plants; International Triticae Mapping Initiative; Agronomy Society
f. 1050-1053Miscellaneous meetings
f. 1054-1055Miscellaneous travel material
f. 1056Notebooks
f. 1057-1062Passports

Speeches

f. 10631942-1957
f. 10641958-1969
f. 10651971-1973
f. 10661973-1976
f. 10671976-1979
f. 10681980-1981
f. 10691981-1982
f. 10701982-1984
f. 10711985
f. 10721985-1991
f. 1073-10741958: Fulbright
f. 1075-10761958: Hoblitzelle
f. 10771958: Gamma Sigma Delta
f. 10781959-1960: American Society of Agronomy
f. 10791973: Oregon State Distinguished Service
f. 10801980: USDA Distinguished Service
f. 10811980: Retirement Dinner
f. 10821981: Excellence Ceremony
f. 1083-10841987: Agricultural Research Service Hall of Fame
f. 1085-1086Certificates, 1928-1985, n.d.
f. 1087-1088Clippings, 1954-1986
f. 1089-1090Miscellaneous awards

Organizations and Programs

f. 1091-1092Agronomy Society
f. 1093-1094American Academy of Science
f. 1095Association of Retired Professors
f. 1096Consejo Cultural Mundial
f. 1097Food for the 21st Century
f. 1098-1100Genetics Society
f. 1101-1105International Rust Conference, 1953, 1956
f. 1106-1110Japan-US Scientific Cooperation Program
f. 1111Japanese Catalogue of Genetic Stocks, 1964
f. 1112Max-Planck Institute; National Institutes of Health
f. 1113-1116National Science Foundation reports
f. 1117Sigma Xi
f. 1118-1136United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization
f. 1118-1127U.N., Catalogue of Genetic Stocks, 1950-1963
f. 1128-1129U.N., List of crop plant collections
f. 1130-1134U.N., World List of Plant Breeders, 1949-1967
f. 1135-1136U.N., World List of Wheat Breeders, 1954, 1960
f. 1137-1185United States Department of Agriculture (f. 1239-1283 also contain USDA material)
f. 1239-1283USDA annual reports, 1936-1971
f. 1137-1147USDA annual reports, 1972-1982
f. 1148-1152USDA station reports, 1971-1990
f. 1153-1166USDA reports, 1952-1976
f. 1167-1168USDA reports, 1979, 1987, Binational Agricultural Research Development Fund (Israel/U.S.)
f. 1137-1185United States Department of Agriculture
f. 1169-1171USDA, miscellaneous reports
f. 1172USDA, microfiche data file
f. 1173-1180USDA, office financial records
f. 1181-1185USDA, employee records (biographical material; insurance, medical and salary information)
f. 1186-1227University of Missouri
f. 1186-1187MU, Coordinating Committee on Genetics
f. 1188MU, Curtis Hall/greenhouse
f. 1189-1195MU, Genetics Area Program
f. 1196-1198MU, graduate school
f. 1199-1210MU, graduate students, A-Z
f. 1211-1214MU, possible graduate students, 1954-1980
f. 1215-1219MU, possible post-grads, A-Y
f. 1220MU, grant applications
f. 1221MU, honorary degree--Seymour Fogel
f. 1222-1223MU, office records
f. 1224-1227MU, search committees

Photographs

f. 1228-1231Photographs, Ernie and Lotti Sears
f. 1232-1236Photographs, Sears and colleagues

Miscellaneous

f. 1237-1238Miscellaneous

Addition to Collection

f. 1239-1283USDA annual reports, 1936-1971

INDEX TERMS

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  • Acosta-Carreon, Aristeo
  • Archive of Soil Science
  • Ausemus, Elmer R.
  • Borlaug, Norman E.
  • Briggle, Lee W.
  • Brody, Samuel
  • Burnham, Charles R.
  • Chromosomes--wheat
  • Curtis, Winterton Conway
  • Darvey, Norman
  • Driscoll, Culin J.
  • Dvorak, Jan
  • Faberge, Alexander C.
  • Feldman, Moshe
  • Gaul, Horst
  • Genetics Society of America
  • Genetics, Wheat
  • Genetics, Wheat--Terminology
  • Gerstel, Dan U.
  • Gill, Bikram S.
  • Gustafson, John Perry
  • Hart, Gary E.
  • Heyne, Elmer G.
  • Hyde, Beal
  • Jenkins, B. Charles
  • Kihara, Hitoshi
  • Kimber, Gordon
  • Kimber, Gordon
  • Knott, Douglas R.
  • Konzak, Calvin F.
  • Loegering, William Q. ( -1987)
  • Longwell, John H. (1895-1982)
  • Lukaszewski, Adam
  • Mac Key, James
  • Matsumura, Seiji ( -1967)
  • McClintock, Barbara (1902-1992)
  • McFadden, E.S.
  • McIntosh, Robert A.
  • Morris, Rosalind
  • Muramastsu, Mikio
  • Naabm, Shivcharan Singh
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • National Seed Storage Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO
  • Okamoto, Masasuke (1919- )
  • Radiation, Effects on wheat
  • Rao, H.K. Shama
  • Rao, M.V. Prabhakara
  • Redei, Gyorgi (George) P.
  • Riley, Ralph
  • Robbelen, Gerhard
  • Rodenhiser, Herman A.
  • Roman, Herschel
  • Rudorf, Wilhelm
  • Runge, Edward
  • Sampayo, Tristao Mello
  • Sears, Ernest Robert (1910-1991)
  • South Africa, Race relations
  • Stadler, Lewis John (1896-1954)
  • Steinitz-Sears, Lotti
  • Stephens, Stanley G.
  • Swaminathan, M.S.
  • Tatum, Loyd A.
  • Tsuchiya, Takumi
  • Tsunewaki, Koichiro
  • U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
  • U.S. National Institutes of Health
  • U.S. National Science Foundation
  • University of Missouri, Department of Agronomy
  • Unrau, John
  • Waines, J. Giles
  • Wheat breeding
  • Wheat, Effects of radiation on
  • Wheat--Genetic aspects
  • Wheat--Genetic stocks
  • Zeller, Friedrich J.
  • Zuber, Marcus S.