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  STARCH 
  CHARACTERS 
  IN 
  CORN 
  

  

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  The 
  data 
  furnished 
  by 
  the 
  offspring 
  from 
  the 
  further 
  ears 
  of 
  

   the 
  same 
  F2 
  generation 
  (130 
  a, 
  129 
  a, 
  c) 
  suggest 
  the 
  same 
  conclu- 
  

   sion. 
  These 
  lots 
  again 
  were 
  selected 
  with 
  reference 
  to 
  variations 
  

   m 
  aleurone 
  color 
  and 
  for 
  this 
  reason 
  further 
  intermediates 
  were 
  

   not 
  planted, 
  but 
  as 
  before 
  we 
  shall 
  consider 
  at 
  this 
  time 
  only 
  the 
  

   starchy 
  and 
  sweet 
  characters. 
  

  

  TABLE 
  II 
  {con.) 
  

  

  D, 
  Relative 
  proportion 
  of 
  hit 
  er 
  mediate 
  kernels 
  obtained 
  in 
  Fzfrom 
  Wisconsin 
  

   White 
  Dent 
  X 
  Black 
  Mexican 
  by 
  planting 
  tjitermediate, 
  as 
  compared 
  

  

  with 
  starch 
  and 
  sugar 
  kernels 
  from 
  ear 
  130 
  d 
  

  

  Extr. 
  

   hybr. 
  

   12 
  ears 
  

   Extr. 
  

   dom, 
  

   12 
  ears 
  

  

  Extr. 
  

  

  starchy 
  

   sweet 
  . 
  . 
  

  

  starchy 
  

   sweet 
  . 
  . 
  

  

  starchy 
  

   sweet 
  . 
  . 
  

  

  From 
  starcby 
  kernels, 
  

  

  34 
  ears 
  

  

  Typical 
  

  

  In 
  term. 
  

  

  From 
  interrttediate 
  

   kernels, 
  7 
  ears 
  

  

  1.390 
  

  

  369 
  

  

  154 
  

  

  2.397 
  

  

  4.156 
  

  

  II 
  

  

  Tyf/ical 
  

  

  173 
  

  

  748 
  

  

  Inierm 
  

  

  165 
  

  

  Fiom 
  sugar 
  kernels 
  

  

  9 
  ears 
  

  

  17 
  

  

  1.494 
  

  

  616 
  

  

  146 
  

  

  I 
  

  

  1,511 
  

  

  146 
  

  

  921 
  

  

  616 
  

  

  From 
  ear 
  130 
  a, 
  I 
  grew 
  in 
  191 
  4 
  plants 
  from 
  four 
  types 
  of 
  ker- 
  

   nels, 
  Nos. 
  155-158, 
  155 
  from 
  colored 
  flint 
  kernels, 
  156 
  from 
  white 
  

   flint 
  kernels, 
  157 
  from 
  colored 
  sweet 
  kernels, 
  158 
  from 
  white 
  sweet 
  

   kernels. 
  From 
  the 
  starchy 
  kernels 
  eighteen 
  ears 
  were 
  obtained. 
  

   Ten 
  of 
  these 
  ears 
  would 
  be 
  classed 
  as 
  hybrids 
  and 
  in 
  addition 
  to 
  

   tvnicfll 
  fitarrhxr 
  anc^ 
  Qwppf 
  kernels, 
  eave 
  a 
  much 
  higher 
  proportion 
  

  

  of 
  

  

  be 
  

  

  extracted 
  dominants. 
  In 
  the 
  former, 
  Table 
  II, 
  section 
  2, 
  A, 
  a, 
  

   there 
  is 
  one 
  intermediate 
  to 
  thirty-nine 
  starchy 
  and 
  sweet, 
  in 
  the 
  

   latter, 
  Table 
  II, 
  section 
  2, 
  A, 
  b, 
  only 
  one 
  intermediate 
  to 
  138 
  

   starchy. 
  If 
  we 
  divide 
  the 
  intermediate 
  kernels 
  from 
  the 
  ten 
  

   hybrid 
  ears 
  from 
  this 
  parent 
  equally 
  between 
  the 
  starchy 
  and 
  

   sweet 
  classes 
  we 
  get 
  1772.5 
  starchy 
  to 
  524-5 
  sweet, 
  a 
  ratio 
  per 
  four 
  

  

  of 
  3.084: 
  .913. 
  

  

  From 
  the 
  extracted 
  sweet 
  kernels 
  (Nos. 
  157 
  and 
  158) 
  ten 
  ears 
  

  

  were 
  obtained. 
  

  

  pe 
  as 
  sweets 
  

  

  