Soost, R. K.
I believe this allele has not been previously noted. I received the seed from Paul Schilling, a graduate student of Dr. Elton Paddock, in 1951. He indicated that it had been found in 1950 as a single plant in the variety Rutgers. Dr. Paddock had been desicnating it as the Van Wert Wooly because it had been growing in a planting near Van Wert, Ohio. For convenience I have therefore designated this allele Wo^v. Like Wo it is also a homozygous lethal but phenotipically Wo^v/+ plants are more woolly than Wo/+ plants. Progenies from crossing to heterozygous Wo segregate 1 Wo/+ : 1 Wo^v/+ : 1 +/+. Progenies from crossing to homozygous Wo^m segregate 1 : 1 for an extremely woolly type (Wo^v/Wo^m) and for the slightly woolly type Wo^v/+. The three alleles form a series for woolliness which has increasing woolliness in the following order: Wo^m/+, Wo^m/Wo^m, Wo/+, Wo^v/+, Wo/Wo^m, and Wo^v/Wo^m.