Bicentennial of Gregor Johann Mendel's birth: Mendel's work still addresses geneticists in 2022

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Vyskot, Boris - Široký, Jiří
Bicentennial of Gregor Johann Mendel's birth: Mendel's work still addresses geneticists in 2022.
Frontiers in Plant Science. Frontiers Research Foundation. Roč. 13, SEP 7 2022 (2022), č. článku 969745. ISSN 1664-462X. E-ISSN 1664-462X
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/19
Program: StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:68081707
Keywords : Gregor Mendel * hybridization * heredity * plant science * history
OECD category: Plant sciences, botany

Two hundred years ago, on 20 July 1822, Gregor Johann Mendel was born in the
small Silesian town of Heinzendorf bei Odrau at that time a part of the Austrian Empire,
now Hynèice in the Czech Republic. Members of the scientific world, as well as the
general public, are looking upon the bicentennial as a chance to gain new insights into
Mendel’s work. Surprisingly, interest and acclaim for Mendel were not immediately
forthcoming despite him making the authorities acquainted with his experimental
findings on plant hybridization in 1865–1866. It remains a closed book as to why
Mendel’s carefully composed publication was unappreciated for more than 30 years.
The only exception from the scientific community in the 1860s was Carl von Nägeli
who exchanged unproductive correspondence with Mendel regarding his work on plant
hybridization of the garden pea (Pisum sativum).

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