Hereditas began with articles on plants since its first issue in May 1920 (six out of eight) and continued with more original articles (43% of the total of this journal) on plants (of which 72% of those in plants were on crops) until today. In December 1922, the 140-page article The Genotypical Response of the Plant Species to the Habitat by evolutionary botanist Göte Turesson (Institute of Genetics, Lund University, Åkarp, Sweden) became available. This publication shows that plant phenology has a genetic basis and may ensue from local adaptation. As a result of this research involving various plant species, Turesson elaborated further in this article his term ecotype “as an ecological sub-unit to cover the product arising as a result of the genotypical response of an ecospecies to a particular habitat.” Although plant articles included in Hereditas involved from its beginning, trait inheritance, mutants, linkage analysis, cytology or cytogenetics, and more recently gene mapping and analysis of quantitative trait loci with the aid of DNA markers, among others, since the mid-1980s several publications refer to the population biology of plant landraces, which are locally grown cultivars that evolved over time by adapting to their natural and cultural environment (i.e., agriculture), and that may become isolated from other populations of the same crop. This article provides a briefing about research on plant science in the journal with emphasis on crops, summarizes the legacy to genetics of Göte Turesson, and highlights some landrace diversity research results and their potential for plant breeding.

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Göte Turesson 对 Hereditas 的研究遗产：从植物生态型概念到作物地方品种多样性分析

《遗传》自 1920 年 5 月创刊以来就以植物文章开始（八分之六），并继续发表更多关于植物的原创文章（占本期刊总数的 43%）（其中 72% 的植物文章涉及作物）直到今天。1922 年 12 月，进化植物学家 Göte Turesson（瑞典奥卡普隆德大学遗传学研究所）发表了 140 页的文章《植物物种对栖息地的基因型响应》。该出版物表明，植物物候具有遗传基础，并且可能是当地适应的结果。由于这项涉及多种植物物种的研究，图雷森在本文中进一步阐述了他的术语“生态型”，“作为一个生态亚单位，涵盖生态物种对特定栖息地的基因型反应所产生的产物”。尽管《遗传》中包含的植物文章从一开始就涉及性状遗传、突变体、连锁分析、细胞学或细胞遗传学，以及最近借助 DNA 标记等进行的基因作图和数量性状位点分析，但自 20 世纪 80 年代中期以来，出版物提到了植物地方品种的种群生物学，这些品种是当地种植的品种，随着时间的推移，通过适应其自然和文化环境（即农业）而进化，并且可能与同一作物的其他种群隔离。本文简要介绍了该杂志上以作物为重点的植物科学研究，总结了 Göte Turesson 的遗传学遗产，并重点介绍了一些地方品种多样性研究成果及其在植物育种方面的潜力。