Word: pistil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...genetic freaks with hereditary male sterility. Researcher Frank Eaton of die U.S. Agriculture Department, working at Texas A. & M., found a chemical key that may unlock all the closed doors. Eaton noted that a weed killer, lightly applied, sterilized the male stamens of cotton, left the more protected female pistil apparently unhurt. If this means what hybridizers hope it means, it may be the key to hybridizing all crops-and vastly increasing their yield...