PNL Volume 14

1982

PREFACE

The Pisum Genetics Association (PGA) is a non-profit, unincor-

porated organization established to facilitate the exchange of

information and to ensure the preservation of valuable genetic stocks.

The number of PGA members now stands at 187.

Membership

Membership in the PGA is open to all interested

persons. Dues are %3.00 annually (U.S. currency) and

are used to help defray the costs of publishing the

PNL. Members are encouraged to pay dues for two or

more years to simplify bookkeeping. Please make prime

bankers checks or money orders payable to Pisum

Genetics Association and send to G. A. Marx, Department

of Seed and Vegetable Sciences, New York State

Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, NY 14456,

USA. The PNL will be sent upon receipt of dues.

PNL Volume 14 represents another step forward in

our effort to provide a better product. The volume was

composed entirely by computer. We are indebted to Mrs.

Porterfield for keyboarding the articles and to Mrs.

Van Kirk for attending to the multitude of organiza-

tional details. Our computer director, Dr. John

Barnard, also deserves to be singled out for special

praise. He has made it possible for us to put the com-

puter to a variety of uses, including computing linkage

estimates. He and his associates have been a key to

our progress.

Once again the National Pea Improvement

Association presented us with a generous financial gift

of %500 for two years. As in the past, this money has

been donated to the department in partial recompense

for supplies and services.

Two important projects are underway. The group

at Weibullsholm Plant Breeding Institute has accepted

responsibility for preparing an updated bibliography of

literature pertaining to pea genetics, cytogenetics,

and breeding. Publication of the bibliography is

scheduled for PNL 15. Equally encouraging is our

progress toward developing a cross-referenced index to

the PNL. This was made possible because our colleague,

Ms. Charlotte Pratt, has volunteered her services.

Before retiring last year, Ms. Pratt served as the in-

dexer for the American Society for Horticultural

Science. We are most grateful to her for giving cf her

time and talent in our behalf. A cumulative index

covering Volumes 1 through 14 is planned for next year,

in PNL 1 5.

Progress

Financial Aid

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PNL Volume 14

1982

PREFACE

The financial report for the period 3/15/81 - 3/14/82:

Balance on hand 3/15/81 653-91

Dues collected: 704.00

Financial

Report

Expenditures:

Postage 133.92

Publishing costs 338.34

Bank charges 46.20

518.46

Balance on hand 3/14/82 839.^5

G. A. Marx, Editor

for the Coordinating Committee;

S. Blixt L. Monti

W. Gottschalk I. Murfet

E. Grit ton B. Sharma

G. Marx B. Snoad

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The name Johan Rasmusson must be counted among that

select group of able and influential Swedish scientists

who contributed so much to the early literature of Pisum

genetics. Professor Rasmusson's writings make it clear

that he fully appreciated the interrelationship between

genetics and physiology. Pisum occupied his attention for

only a part of his professional career but the Pisum

literature is richer for his contributions. The cover

picture is a drawing made by Elaine Gotham from a photo

furnished by courtesy of Hilleshogs Archive, Sweden.

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