Volume 21 Number 3 Article 10 Pages: 53-54
Year 1967 Month 7
Title: A Method of Finding the Most Likely Parents of Chance Seedlings of Fruits
Author: F.L. Ashworth
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Abstract:
Amateur and professional fruit breeders like to know the parentage of varieties that they plan to use in their work.
But many kinds are chance seedlings, and the search for their parents is usually unsuccesful.
We still do not know how all of the traits that make up the genetic pool of fruits are inherited.
However, we do know that sooner or later, "like" produces "like". This may not occur in the first generation; and the "like" may be an isolated trait, with most of the other characters being derived from other ancestors.
Yet it is reasonable to believe that a characteristic is more apt to be derived from a variety visibly showing it than from one that doesn't.
The following method of determining the most likely parents is based on this assumption.
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