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The Chimerical Nature of a Potato Wilding
Author(s) -
Howard H. W.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
plant pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.928
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-3059
pISSN - 0032-0862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3059.1967.tb00375.x
Subject(s) - biology , cultivar , botany , horticulture
SUMMARY Wildings of the potato cultivar Redskin were shown by eye‐excision experiments and X‐ray treatment to be chimeras in which the outermost growing‐point layer, L 1 , was unchanged and in which the other layers of the stem apex, L 2 and L 3 , had a mutation for the wilding character. It is probable that wildings of other cultivars which do not appear to be chimeras when investigated by eye‐excision experiments, have the constitution: L 1 normal; L 2 and L 3 wilding.