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Page 36 · DO #4878 · 231_Rogers_Bx8FF10_r
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David James Rogers (1918–2007) papers
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Manihot - Miscellaneous Grants, up to 1956
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DO #4878,
page 36
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- 1948–1977
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have been made to correlate biochemical data with morphological data particularly employing electrophoretic techniques with proteins, these having some significance. The most closely associated work to the above proposal was made by Moyer (Am. Jour. Bot., 1934), using electrophoretic studies of the latex of several species of the genus Euphorbia. He made no effort, however, to correlate other data than had already been accumulated, nor to reclassify on the basis of his findings.
The objectives of this work are as follows (1) to classify the varieties of the species, (2) to provide a new tool for taxonomists in their efforts to be more exact in establishment of relationships, the tool being that of the microbiological assay which is relatively simple, and strikes at a point of fundamental significance in plant biochemistry--proteins and their basic role, (3) to establish the correct chromosome constitution of a group of plants which have been variously reported (counts ranging from n=4 to n=106, these two extremes have been questioned, but not thoroughly checked).
A further objective of this work is one of far-reaching possibilities, although beyond the immediate efforts named above. In view of the fact that there is an ever-increasing need for food supplies for the world's population, new food producing plants, capable of growing in regions not already in constant cultivation, must be found. Although Manihot utilissima is not new as a starch producing plant, it has never been subjected to modern methods of cultivation,
