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WE regret to record the death at Warsaw of Dr. Pawal Lada, a young Polish geneticist, who was working in the School of Agronomy of the University of Crakow, in July last, aged forty years. He had made intensive studies of rye and was seeking to produce a variety having six rows of seeds instead of the usual four. He had also studied a disease known as”brittleness’ in rye and showed that it is really a genetic character unaffected by environmental conditions ; in his breeding experiments it behaved as a simple Mendelian recessive. He discovered no character of the seed correlated with brittleness, so was unable to find a way of discarding seeds subject to this trouble. As part of his technique he carried out his experiments in special nurseries located in an area of woodland remote from cultivation, so that his plants could be shielded from cross-fertilization from outside sources. -Eada was a native of the Ukraine, but he settled in Poland as a refugee, and in his researches he was assisted by his wife, who had been also a fellow student. There was a freshness of outlook and ingenuity in his methods of experiment that promised well for his future had he lived.
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Obituary Notices. Nature 140, 1087 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401087b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1401087b0