Donald R Forsdyke, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Published online: February 2002
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002544
(1822–1884) Moravian biologist and physicistfrom whose plant breeding studies were derived fundamental laws of inheritance, which founded a new branch of biology, genetics.
Keywords: heredity; plant breeding; constant hybrids; Mendel's laws; genetics
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Figure 1. Mendel, Gregor Johann. Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
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| Further Reading | |
| Mendel GJ (1866) Experiments on plant hybridization. Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 4: 3–47. | |
| Mendel GJ (1870) On Hieracium hybrids obtained by artificial fertilization. Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 8: 26–31. | |
| book Bateson W (1909) Mendel's Principles of Heredity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
| Blumberg RB (1997) MendelWeb ePath [http://www.netspace.org/MendelWeb/]. | |
| Forsdyke D (2000) William Bateson: Two Levels of genetic Information ePath [http://post.queensu.ca/~forsdyke/bateson1.htm]. | |
| Forsdyke DR (2000) Haldane's rule: hybrid sterility affects the heterogametic sex first because sexual differentiation is on the path to species differentiation. Journal of Theoretical Biology 204: 443–452. | |
| book Iltis H (1932) Life of Mendel, First English edn. London: Allen and Unwin. | |
| book Olby R (1985) The Origins of Mendelism, 2nd edn. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press. | |
| book Orel V (1996) Gregor Mendel, the First Geneticist. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| Orel V (2000) Constant hybrids in Mendel's research. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 22: 291–299. | |
| book Roberts HF (1929) Plant Hybridization before Mendel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. | |
| Sandler I (2000) Development: Mendel's legacy to genetics. Genetics 154: 7–11. | |
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