CONTENTS xiii 



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Color of grain and straw I . ; 92 



Hulled versus hull-less 93 



Pubescence 94 



Characters of base of lower grain 94 



Open versus side panicle 95 



Resistance to rust 95 



Size characters 96 



Linkage of characters 97 



False wild oats 97 



Classification and inheritance in barley 98 



Species crosses 99 



Simple Mendelian characters 102 



Winter versus spring habit 103 



Density of the spike 103 



The barley awn in relation to yield 104 



Some rye studies 106 



Wheat-rye hybrids 106 



Buckwheat 107 



Breeding buckwheat 108 



Rice 108 



Inheritance of characters 108 



CHAPTER VIII 



METHODS OF BREEDING SMALL GRAINS 



Method of keeping continuous records Ill 



New introductions 113 



Select'on 114 



Summary of methods of selection 115 



Crossing 116 



Technic of harvesting, thrashing, etc 117 



CHAPTER IX 



SOME RESULTS OF SELECTION WITH SELF-FERTILIZED CROPS 



Early investigators in selection of self -fertilized cereals 118 



Selection within a pure line 120 



Selection for the purpose of isolating a pure line 125 



Wheat selections 128 



Oat selections . . 129 



Selections in other self -fertilized crops 131 



CHAPTER X 



SOME RESULTS OF CROSSING AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING SELF-FERTILIZED 



CROPS 



The improvement of black oats at Svalof . . . . ... . -. . . . . . 132 



A wheat cross made at Svalof ^ ...... 134 



Wheat breeding at University Farm, Cambridge, England ...... 134 



Farrer's wheat breeding in Australia .135 



