Dan U. Gerstel Papers
MC 00358
Special Collections Research Center
4.0 Linear feet
1868 - 1997
The Dan U. Gerstel Papers contain numerous scientific publications on a variety of topics related to the study of genetics, cytology, plant pathology, and crop science, collected by Dan U. Gerstel during his career as a member of the faculty of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences of North Carolina State University and in the genetics department of the Weizmann Institute of Science (Mekhon Vaitsman le-mada) in Rehovot, Israel. The material is international in scope and covers a period of six decades. In addition to scientific publications, the collection contains personal and professional correspondence, a diary, genealogical research materials, newspaper clippings, and articles related to stamp collecting.
Cytogeneticist Dan U. Gerstel, Ph.D., served as a professor of crop science at North Carolina State University, 1950 - 1980. He specialized in the study of tobacco and cotton.
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8 archival boxes
Gerstel, Dan U.
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Received in 2003.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], Dan U. Gerstel Papers, MC 358, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Biographical Note
Cytogeneticist Dan U. Gerstel, Ph.D., served as a professor of crop science at North Carolina State University, 1950 - 1980. He specialized in the study of tobacco and cotton.
Son of Else and Dr. Alfred Gerstel, Dan Gerstel was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1915. His father served as the President of the Prussian Supreme Court, where he was known for his contributions to labor law. Gerstel's mother was among the first women in Germany to study for a doctorate. When Hitler came to power, Gerstel fled to Palestine where he worked on a kibbutz.
It was in Palestine that Gerstel met his wife, Eva. Dan Gerstel performed all the duties required of kibbutz residents and developed an interest in agriculture. In 1938 his bent for agriculture led him to study genetics at the University of California, Berkley, where he earned a Ph.D. In 1950 Gerstel joined the faculty of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University). Over the course of his career he published nearly a hundred papers and received numerous acknowledgements for his teaching and research including the William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professorship in Agronomy and Genetics.
Gerstel witnessed and participated in the evolution of the State of Israel as he returned numerous times to the Middle East, and worked in the genetics department of the Weizmann Institute of Science (Mekhon Vaitsman le-mada) in Rehovot, Israel. Dan and Eva Gerstel had two children, David and Naomi. Dan U. Gerstel died on June 8, 2003, at the age of 88.
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains numerous scientific publications collected by Dan U. Gerstel during his career as a member of the faculty of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences of
North Carolina State University and in the genetics department of the
Weizmann Institute of Science (Mekhon Vaitsman le-mada) in Rehovot, Israel. The publications are on a variety of topics related to the study of
genetics,
cytology,
plant pathology, and
crop science. The material is international in scope and covers a period of six decades. In addition to scientific publications, the collection contains personal and professional correspondence, a diary, genealogical research materials, newspaper clippings, and articles related to stamp collecting.
Organization of the Collection
This collection is organized into two series, Publications and Scientific Papers, and Correspondence and Ephemera.
Gerstel, Dan U.
Mekhon Vaitsman le-mada.
North Carolina State University. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences--Faculty--History.
Clippings
Crop science--Research--North Carolina--History
Cytology--Research--North Carolina--History
Diaries
Letters (correspondence)
Plant diseases--Research--North Carolina--History
Plant genetics--Research--North Carolina--History
Postage stamps
Publications
Correspondence and Ephemera
MC 358 Series 02
1 archival box, 0.5 linear feet
Scope and Contents note
This series contains notes and professional correspondence generated and received by Gerstel during his tenure at North Carolina State University. Additionally, there is a photocopy of a diary, written in German, belonging to Anna Flato, a Gerstel relative, dated 1868 - 1872. The series also includes a copy of a research paper entitled, "Attitudes, Values, and Tasks of Older Women", by Angela Roberta Stocker, newspaper clippings collected by Gerstel, and material related to stamp collecting.
Correspondence
7
52
1949 - 1982
Notes, undated
7
53
Newspaper Clippings
9
1
1954 - 1981
Diary of Anna Flato with Cover Letter
9
2
1868 - 1989
"Attitudes, Values and Tasks of Seven Older Women", Angela Roberta Stocker
9
3
1991
Siegal's Newsletter - Holyland and Judaic Philately (3 issues)
9
4
1976 - 1977
Postage Stamp Auction Catalogues
9
5
1977 - 1980
Postage Stamp Brochures
9
6
1977 - 1980
Publications and Scientific Papers
MC 358 Series 01
7 archival boxes, 3.5 linear feet
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of research publications, scientific papers, and journal articles collected by Dan U. Gerstel over a period of six decades
1930 - 1997. The material is arranged in chronological order. These papers provide a general historical overview of the evolution of genetic study, cytology, plant pathology, and crop science in the twentieth century, as well as information detailing research specific to tobacco, cotton, and corn. The series also contains a set of publications by North Carolina State University geneticist and O. Max Gardner Award winner Stanley George Stephens.
Cytological Demonstration
1
1
1930
Cytological Theory of Inheritance in Oenothera
1
2
1931
Chromotic Crossing Over to the Upper Limit of Recombination Percentages
1
3
1933
Die Herkunft der Chromocentren
1
4
1932
Deficiency of Chromosome Nine of Zea Mays
1
5
1933
Origin of Behavior of Chiasmata
1
6
1933
Cytologische Untersuchungren
1
7
1933
Recent Advances in Cytology
1
8
1933
The Relation of Particular Chromosomal Element in the Development of the Nuceoli in Zea Mays
1
9
1934
Relation Between Satellite Size and Nucleolus Size
1
10
1938
The Effect of Polyploidy and Apomoxis on the Evolution of Species of Crepis
1
11
1939
Apomoxis in the Angiosperms
1
12
1941
Spontaneous Alterations in Chromosome Site and Form in Zea Mays
1
13
1979
Chromosome Elimination in Inter-Specific Hybrids
1
14
1942
Distribution of Structural Hybrids in Paeonia Californica
1
15
1979
Systematics, Cytogenetics, and Evolution in Crepis
1
16
1942
The Journey Not the Goal
1
17
1944
Luther Burbank's Plant Contributions
1
18
1945
The Production of Chromosome Structural Changes
1
19
1946
The P-Locus Effect in Oenothera (Journal of Genetics)
1
20
1947
The P-Locus Effect in Oenothera (D.G. Catcheside)
1
21
1947
A Duplication and a Deficiency in Oenethera
1
22
1947
Mytotic Nondisjunction
1
23
1947
The Origin of the Cultivated Tomato
1
24
1948
Cytogenetics of Speciation in Gossypium
1
25
1948
The Origin and Behavior of Mutable Loci in Maize
2
1
1950
Meiosis in Maize
2
2
1950
Self Incompatibility in Crepis Foetida
2
3
1950
Gene Induced Mutation
2
4
1950
A New Type of Self Sterility in Plants
2
5
1950
The Potato
2
6
1951
Chromosome Organization and Genetic Expression
2
7
1951
The Evolution of Gossypium and the Differentiation of the Cultivated Cotton
2
8
1951
Genetic Segregation in Apomictic Strains of the Guayule Rubber Plant
2
9
1951
Race Crossing in Paradise
2
10
1953
Affinity in Maize
2
11
1953
Model Estimates
2
12
1953
Evidence for Sister Strand Crossing
2
13
1953
The Genetics of Brevistylis in Oenethera
2
14
1954
Chromosomes, Mutations, and Cytoplasm in Maize
2
15
1954
B - Chromosomes
2
16
1954
Cytological and Genetical Identification
2
17
1954
Two or Three Bristles
2
18
1954
Mitosis
2
19
1954
Argentina - Homeland of Our Beans
2
20
1954
Crossing Over in Drosophila
2
21
1955
The Relationship of Chiasmata and Crossing Over in Lilium Formosanum
2
22
1955
Ernest Brown Babcock
2
23
1955
Das Verhalten der Chromosomen
2
24
1955
The Effects of Polyploidy of Sex Expression in Spinach
2
25
1955
Genetics of the Monoecius Character in Spinach
2
26
1955
Chiasmata in a Pericentric Inversion in Zea Mays
2
27
1955
Japanese Morning Glory
2
28
1956
Artificial Polyploidy as a Tool in Plant Breeding
2
29
1956
Genetic Determination
2
30
1956
Spontaneous Meiotic Chromosome Breakage
2
31
1956
Expression of Sex in Flowering Plants
2
32
1957
The Sex Chromosomes in Humulus
2
33
1957
Theoretical Genetics
2
34
1957
Cytoplasm in Sexual Reproduction
2
35
1958
The Regulation of Recombination in Plants
2
36
1958
A New Category of Chromosomes
2
37
1958
Comparative Studies of Chromosome Pairing
2
38
1958
German Genetics Pamphlet
2
39
1958
Ernest Brown Babcock
2
40
1958
The Duplication of Chromosomes
2
41
1958
A Discussion on the Cytoplasm in Variation and Development
2
42
1958
Reconstructing the Ancestor of Corn
2
43
1958
Sitzungberichte
2
44
1958
Complementation Between Alleles in Heterocaryons
2
45
1958
Crossing Over in Heterochromatin
2
46
1958
Cine-Micrographic Analysis of C- Mitosis
2
47
1958
Cine-Micrographic Studies
2
48
1958
The Concept of Natural Selection
2
49
1959
Variation and Hereditary Transmission
2
50
1959
Variation Under Domestication
2
51
1958
Chromosome Elimination in a Trisomic of Spinacia Olaracea
2
52
1959
Darwins Views on Variation
2
53
1959
Richard Benedict Goldschmidt
3
1
1960
Chromosome Reproduction Problem of Coding and Transmitting the Genetic Heritage
3
2
1960
The Quarterly Review of Biology
3
3
1960
The Diploidisation of Polyploid Wheat
3
4
1960
Duration of the Nuclear Cycle in Tradescantia Paludosa
3
5
1960
Studies in the Origin of Cultivated Barley
3
6
1960
Chromosome Reproduction and the Problem of Coding and Transmitting the Genetic Heritage
3
7
1960
The Cytology and Genetic Consequences of Inversions
3
8
1960
German Botanical Pamphlet
3
9
1960
Meiotic and Mitotic Prophase Irradiation
3
10
1960
Karyo Races in Spinacia Oleracea
3
11
1961
Genotypic Control of Chromosome Form and Behavior
3
12
1961
Radiation Analysis
3
13
1961
Some Parallels Between Gene Control Systems in Maize and in Bacteria
3
14
1961
Activation in Riesenchromosomen
3
15
1961
Mitosis in Endosperm
3
16
1962
Multiple Differentiation of Plasmons
3
17
1962
Publication of Professor Dr. Alfred Ernst
3
18
1962
Cytogenetic Analysis of Sex Determination in Spinacia Oleracea
3
19
1962
Study of an X Autosome Translocation
3
20
1962
Sex Chromosome Translocations
3
21
1962
Studies on Meiosis in Luzula Purpea
3
22
1962
The Mechanism of Sex Determination - Rumex Hastatulus
3
23
1963
Mitosis and Mitotic Factors
3
24
1963
Mammalian X - Chromosome Action
3
25
1963
Cytogenetics of B-Chromosomes
3
26
1963
Heterochromatic Chromosomes
3
27
1964
El Origien de la Papa
3
28
1964
The Use of Induced Mutation Plant Breeding
3
29
1964
Searle's X-Autosome
3
30
1964
Genetic Repression in Multicellular Organisms
3
31
1964
Genetics of Chloroplasts
3
32
1964
Haploidy as a New Approach to the Cytogenetics and Breeding of Solanum Tubersum
3
33
1964
Curriculum Vitae- Dr. Naomi Feinbrun
3
34
1964
Evolutionary Pathways of Cytoplasmic Male Sterility in Solanum
3
35
1964
Domestication of Corn
3
36
1964
The Biological Species Concept and its Evolutionary Structure
3
37
1964
Chromosome Puffs
3
38
1964
The History and Origins of Maize
3
39
1965
The Control of Gene Activation in Maize
3
40
1965
Spontaneous Chromosome Breakage
3
41
1965
Experimental Cell Research 39
3
42
1965
Chromosoma
3
43
1965
Genetics-Crossing Over
3
44
1965
Relationships Between Mitotic Rhythm, Nucleic Acid, and Morphogenesis in Higher Plants
3
45
1965
Chorthippus Parallelus
3
46
1965
Wild Potatoes in Africa
3
47
1965
Heterochromotin
4
1
1966
Heterochromotin (Brown, S.W.)
4
2
1966
Use of Telosomes in Mapping Three Chromosomes in Cotton
4
3
1966
Cytological Expressions
4
4
1966
Location DNS-Replication in Riesenchromosomes
4
5
1966
Sex Chromosomes in Spinach
4
6
1966
Fine Structure in Synapsed Chromosomes
4
7
1966
Somatic Association
4
8
1966
Duration of the Mitotic Cycle
4
9
1966
The Effects of Chromosomes 5B, 5D, and 5A
4
10
1966
Heterochromotin
4
11
1966
Time of Chiasma Formation
4
12
1966
The Past as Prelude
4
13
1966
Chromosomal Evolution in the Genus Peromyscus
4
14
1966
Chromosomal Variations
4
15
1967
Das Plasma als Trager Genetischer Information
4
16
1967
Biological Points of View on Some Humanistic Problems
4
17
1967
Suppression of Homologous Pairings
4
18
1967
The Nucleolus, Virus Infection, and Trisomy in Man
4
19
1967
Nucleolar Structure and Function
4
20
1967
Sex Differentiation in Mammals
4
21
1967
Position Effect Variegation
4
22
1968
The Concept of Evolution
4
23
1968
Genetica Aplicada
4
24
1968
Genetic Systems
4
25
1968
Effects of Radiation on Meotic Systems
4
26
1968
Das Plasma
4
27
1968
Genetic Control of Multiple Molecular Forms
4
28
1968
Somatic Associations
4
29
1968
Paramutation: Directed Genetic Change
4
30
1968
Evolution of Sex Determining Mechanisms in Rumex
4
31
1969
Fine and Course Controls of Genetic Recombination
4
32
1969
The Role of Sexuality in Dosage Compensation in Drosophila
4
33
1969
Radiation Analysis
5
1
1970
Studies in the Mechanism of Crossing Over
5
2
1970
Electron Microscope Visualization of Transcription
5
3
1970
Cytochemical and Audiographic Analyses
5
4
1970
Intergenic Recombination
5
5
1970
Changes of Cytoplasmic Factors During the Evolution of the Cultivated Potato
5
6
1970
Cytoplastic Sterilities
5
7
1970
Replication in Polytene Chromosomes
5
8
1970
Virus Infection Capsicum Annuum L.
5
9
1970
Repeated Segments of DNA
5
10
1971
Heterochromitin, Satellite DNA, and Cell Function
5
11
1971
Heterochromitin, Satellite DNA, and Cell Function (Grell, R.F.)
5
12
1971
Distributive Pairing in Man
5
13
1971
Arrangement of Centromeres in Mouse Cells
5
14
1971
The Origin of Maize
5
15
1971
Directed Genetic Change Model
5
16
1971
Directed Genetic Change Model (Cooper, D.W.)
5
17
1971
The Evolution of Sweet Corn
5
18
1971
Repetitive and Non-Repetitive DNA Sequences
5
19
1971
Meiotic and Somatic Chromosome Pairing
5
20
1972
Cytological Localizations of Ribosomal Cystrons
5
21
1972
Male Sterility in Capsicum Annuum L.
5
22
1972
Inactivation System of the Mammalian X Chromosome
5
23
1973
Domestication of Pulses in the Old World
5
24
1973
Heterozygous Reciprocal Translocations
5
25
1973
Identification of Cytoplasms
5
26
1973
Linkage Analysis in Man by Somatic Cell Genetics
5
27
1973
Giemsa Banding
5
28
1973
Regulation of Gene Function
5
29
1973
Distribution of Constitutive Heterochromatin
5
30
1973
DNA Replication and Recombination
5
31
1973
Unilateral Incompatibility in Plant Species
5
32
1973
Meiotic Behavior of Translocation Heterozygotes
5
33
1973
The Scientist's Bookshelf
5
34
1974
Nuclear DNA
5
35
1974
Role of Heterochromatin in the Control of Cell Cycle Duration
5
36
1974
Isozymes in Development
5
37
1974
Somatic Hybridization of Plants
5
38
1974
Somatic Cell Genetics
5
39
1974
Longitudinal Differentiation of Chromosomes (1 of 2)
6
1
1974
Longitudinal Differentiation of Chromosomes, with notes (2 of 2)
6
2
1974
Haploids From Somatic Cells
6
3
1974
Dosage Compensation
6
4
1974
Dosage Compensation
6
5
1974
The Origins of Polyploidy
6
6
1975
The Evolutionary Emergence of Maize
6
6-A
1975
Chromosome Imprinting
6
7
1975
Beginnings of Fruit Growing in the Old World
6
8
1975
Why Didn't Gregor Mendel Find Linkage?
6
9
1975
On O Winge and a Prayer (1 of 2)
6
10
1975
On O Winge and a Prayer (2 of 2)
6
11
1975
The Cultivated Artichoke
6
12
1975
Nuclear Organization (2 of 2)
6
13
1976
The Origin of Cultivated Cereals and Pulses in the Near East
6
14
1976
Evolution of the Cultivated Potato
6
15
1976
Genetic Resources in Wild Relatives of Crops
6
16
1976
Fusion of Human Cells With Carrot Protoplasts
6
17
1976
The Chromosome Field
6
18
1976
Tobacco Fraction One Protein
6
19
1976
Segregation Pattern of a Translocation Quadrivalent
6
20
1976
Cytological Characteristics and Nuclear Buoyant Densities of Corn
6
21
1976
Aegilops Searsii
6
22
1977
Composition of Fraction One Protein
6
23
1977
Kombination Somatischer
6
24
1977
Hybridization of Maize and Teosinte
6
25
1977
The Origin of Corn
6
26
1977
Germ Line Recombination
6
27
1977
Evolution and Tinkering
6
28
1977
Genetic Regulation
6
29
1977
Vergleichende Analyse
6
30
1977
Inheritance Traits - Maize
6
31
1978
Gene Dosage Compensation
6
32
1978
Somatic Hybrid Plants
6
33
1978
Forty Years of Mutation Research
6
34
1978
Genetic Instability in Somatic Hybrids
6
35
1978
The Origin of the B Genome of Wheat
6
36
1978
Cell Cycle Mutants
6
37
1978
Drosophila Melanogaster Oocyte
6
38
1978
Chromosome Pairing and Fertility
6
39
1978
Temperature Orientation - Barley
6
40
1978
B - A Translocations in Maize
6
41
1978
Plastids of Higher Plants
6
42
1979
Differential DNA Replication in Plants
6
43
1979
Botany and Origin of Maize
6
44
1979
Why Are Babies Young ?
6
45
1979
The Ancestry of Corn
7
1
1980
Selfish DNA
7
2
1980
How to Produce a Human With Three Chromosomes and 1000 Primary Genes
7
3
1980
Genetic Balance to Endosperm
7
4
1981
Classification of Genes
7
5
1980
Arrangement of Chromosomes in Interphase Nucleus
7
6
1980
Heterochromatin
7
7
1980
Selfish Genes, the Phenotype Paradigm and Genome Evolution
7
8
1980
Evolution of Unilateral Incompatibility in Flowering Plants
7
9
1981
Tissue Culture, Genetic Transformation, and Plant Improvement
7
10
1981
The Genetic Goal of Speciation
7
11
1981
Evolution of Sexual Reproduction
7
12
1981
Polyploidy and Diploidy
7
13
1982
Zea diploperennis
7
14
1982
Zea diploperennis, a Review on its Significance
7
15
1982
The Synthetic Theory Strikes Back
7
16
1983
The Origin of Maize
7
17
1983
Cytogenetics of Oats
7
18
1994
Eduardo Catalano
7
19
1997
Cotton Genetics (Stephens)
7
20
1946
Genome Analysis (Stephens)
7
21
1949
The Genetics of Corky (Stephens)
7
22
1950
Possible Significance of Duplication in Evolution (Stephens)
7
23
1951
Evolution of the Gene (Stephens)
7
24
1951
Natural Crossing in Cotton (Stephens)
7
25
1953
Interspecific Homologies (Stephens)
7
26
1954
Linkage in Upland Cotton (Stephens)
7
27
1955
Factors Affecting Seed Dispersal (Stephens)
7
28
1958
Recombination Between Supposedly Homologous Chromosomes (Stephens)
7
29
1961
Species Differentiation in Relation to Crop Improvement (Stephens)
7
30
1961
Polynesian Cottons (Stephens)
7
31
1963
Native Hawaiian Cotton (Stephens)
7
32
1964
The Effects of Domestication on Certain Seed and Fiber Properties (Stephens)
7
33
1965
The Galapagos (Stephens)
7
34
1966
The Potentiality for Long Range Oceanic Dispersal of Cotton Seeds (Stephens)
7
35
1966
Curriculum Vitae (Stephens)
7
36
1966
The Research Work of S.G. Stephens (Stephens)
7
37
1966
Dr. Stanley Stephens: Geneticist (Stephens)
7
38
1967
The Oliver Max Gardner Award (Stephens)
7
39
1970
Obituary (Stephens)
7
40
1970
Photogenetic Evidence for the Amphidiploid Origin in New World Cotton (Stephens), undated
7
41
Agricultural Pamphlet - Hebrew, undated
7
42
Drosophila Symposium, undated
7
43
Recombination of Tetraploids, undated
7
44
Gene Related to Growth Factor Gene, undated
7
45
Composition of Fraction One Protein, undated
7
46
Organelle DNA Variation, undated
7
47
Survey of Effects of Radiation on Chromosomes, undated
7
48
The Control of Gene Activation in Maize, undated
7
49
Further Studies of Gene Control in Maize, undated
7
50
Two Pamphlets in Hebrew - Genetics, undated
7
51
1930-1948 Miscellaneous
8
1
1950-1959 Miscellaneous
8
2
1960-1965 Miscellaneous
8
3
1966-1969 Miscellaneous
8
4
1970-1974 Miscellaneous
8
5
1975-1979 Miscellaneous
8
6
1980-1997 Miscellaneous
8
7
Undated
8
8