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Donald Forsha Jones

American agronomist
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April 16, 1890, Hutchinson, Kan., U.S.
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June 19, 1963, Hamden, Conn. (aged 73)
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Donald Forsha Jones (born April 16, 1890, Hutchinson, Kan., U.S.—died June 19, 1963, Hamden, Conn.) was an American geneticist and agronomist who made hybrid corn (maize) commercially feasible. Jones earned his B.S. degree at Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, in 1911. For the next two years he worked at the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, Tucson. In 1914 he went to Harvard University, where he studied under Edward M. East, who was directing experiments in the inbreeding of corn in search of a high-yield hybrid. In 1917 Jones successfully combined two single-cross hybrid corn varieties in a ...(100 of 201 words)

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