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Jones, D F

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Jones, D(onald) F(orsha) (1890–1963)

US agriculturalist. In 1917 he developed a hybrid corn that increased yields and made commercial production more practical. In 1924 he introduced the first hybrid sweet corn. He also developed a genetic method for transmitting pollen. He was associate editor of The Rural New Yorker for many years.

He was born in Hutchinson, Kansas. He was at the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station 1911–13 and the Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station 1915–60. On retirement he started Seed Producers Advisory Service in Connecticut.



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