44 YEARS AGO
1911
17 January 1979
2023
This article described a South African breakthrough in breeding a superior sunflower hybrid cultivar through irradiation.
Sunflower seed bombarded with gamma rays to produce mutants for the breeding of a new, shorter-stemmed and later-maturing sunflower variety has placed South Africa among the few countries in the world playing a leading part in the use of irradiation in sunflower breeding. This significant breakthrough in sunflower research has
