Reeks KSD/1/2 - Pisum Research Loose Papers

Extent: 2 folders

Loose research notes on graph paper in three sections: sowings, results and pod spot light. Charting results of experiments in growth and development of pod shoots and neoplastic pods under different growing conditions and lights, including fluorescent, mercury vapour lamps and radar red. Graphs and detailed handwritten notes, letters, photographs, manuscript by Kenneth Dodds and Peter Matthews 'Neoplastic Pod in the Pea', an article on artificial light and letters from Kenneth Dodds to Atlas Lighting Company, Hirst Research Centre, Journal of Heredity and Peter Matthews.

Admin History: Kenneth Dodds was appointed in Director of John Innes in March 1954. Lecturer then Professor of Botany and Genetics at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad (1937-49); Officer-in-Charge of the Commonwealth Potato Station at the School of Agriculture, University of Cambridge (1949-51) and Director of the Agricultural Research Council’s Potato Genetics Station at Cambridge (following the transfer of the Potato Collection to the ARC). Peter Matthews: pathologist, geneticist, JI 1947, 1952-1988. https://www.jic.ac.uk/pea-homepage/neoplastic-pea-pods/#