1 Overview
Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg: biography and pictures,
history of plant breeding, Tschermak and his involvement in the rediscovery
of Mendel's laws of inheritance
2 From Mendel to Rediscovery
Mendel's laws of inheritance, Focke cites Mendel, Tschermak's
perspective of the rediscovery (the orthodox view), the rediscovery papers
published in 1900, Tschermak's relations to Correns, Tschermak and DeVries,
critics of "rediscovery", critics on Tschermak, open questions
3 The Undiscovered
The "undiscovered rediscoverers": William James Farrer,
William Jasper Spillman, William Bateson, Pehr Bolin
4 Tschermak's True Merit
Tschermak's achievements: dissemination of the Mendelian
idea, founding of breeding stations, e.g. the Mendel-institute at Eisgrub
(today: Lednice)
5 Plant Breeding Achievements
Interspecific hybridisations and triticale, wheat breeding,
barley breeding (e.g. Tschermak's 2-row winter barley), oat breeding, rye
breeding
6 Epilogue
A journey to North America (with some personal details
included), correspondence with G.H. Shull, H. Nilsson-Ehle, W. Johannsen,
C. Correns, W. Bateson and E. Haeckel, on the traces of Tschermak in Austria