Theißen Günter
Department of Genetics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Philosophenweg 12, D-07743 Jena, Germany
J Exp Bot. 2014 Dec;65(22):6751-4. doi: 10.1093/jxb/ert461. Epub 2014 Jun 30.
For good reasons scientists usually do not report the personal circumstances of their work when publishing their results. This means, however, that the scientific facts being reported may not accurately reflect the personal importance of the respective work for the individual scientists. Pictures of pod corn (or Tunicate maize) have been on my mind for much of my life, through good and through bad times. This is why...