Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nonetheless, the four hybrid bears were paired off. Last month the two couples confounded the experts by producing a litter each. One cub lived, nursed from an Evenflow bottle on a diet of Esbilac (a Borden animal formula). Last week he weighed more than five pounds and was starting to open his eyes. Washington's Zoomen named him Gene, just to needle the geneticists. They watched him with pride and hope and designs on his chromosomes. If Gene proves fertile, he could be the Adam of a wholly new race of bears...
Botanists have eliminated the most expensive part of the nation's hybrid corn seed business. This is the claim made for a new breed of hybrid corn which will not require "detasseling." The breed was developed by Paul C. Mangelsdorf, professor of Botany, and Donald F. Jones of the Connecticut Agricultural Station, who announced their discovery today...
...plant produces no pollen on its tassel. In order that only the desired pollen will father a new hybrid type, growers have always had to remove by hand the pollen bearing tassels in alternate plots of corn...
Results of comprehensive tests with the new method indicate, the scientists report, that it "promises to revolutionize the hybrid corn seed industry...