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DURING the last fifteen years geneticists have been displaying an increasing interest in the problems of wild populations-with, in fact, the problems of the systematist, the ecologist and the student of evolution. The results of this activity, which are familiar from many publications, bear ample testimony to the power of genetical methods and ideas in this joint field. In taking “Genetics, Taxonomy and Ecology” as the subject of his presidential address, delivered in February 1944 to the Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding (Indian J. Genetics, 4, 2 ; 1944), Dr. W. Burns has therefore been concerned less to justify such work than to consider the opportunities afforded for it by the plants of India.
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MATHER, K. GENETICS AND TAXONOMY IN INDIA. Nature 157, 166 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157166a0
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