Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Dr Sterling Howard Emerson discussing Pontecorvo's plan to produce heterozygous diploids in Neurosporan with Dr Joseph Alan Roper and the difficulties in achieving this

Date:
Feb 1952
Reference:
UGC 198/3/1/22
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Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Dr Sterling Howard Emerson discussing Pontecorvo's plan to produce heterozygous diploids in Neurosporan with Dr Joseph Alan Roper and the difficulties in achieving this. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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He writes "I have had full success in applying the technique of genetic analysis via somatic crossing over to Aspergillus niger, which is a completely asexual species".

Publication/Creation

Feb 1952

Physical description

3 letters (4 pages)

Biographical note

Emerson was a pioneer of corn genetics. At the time of writing Emerson was on leave from the Californian Instiute of Technology (where he was employed for most of his career) and working at the University of Cambridge supervising graduate students for David Catcheside, who was himself on sabbatical.

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