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THE SEEDLING CHARACTERS OF SOME CULTIVATED BRASSICAE
Author(s) -
ROBSON W. S.
Publication year - 1934
Publication title -
annals of applied biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1744-7348
pISSN - 0003-4746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7348.1934.tb06687.x
Subject(s) - biology , seedling , leafy vegetables , white (mutation) , horticulture , brassica , bulb , botany , gene , biochemistry
SUMMARY. A detailed study was made of the morphological characters of the seedlings of some cultivated forms of Brassica , namely, white‐fleshed and yellow‐fleshed swede turnips, winter swede and summer swede rapes, white‐fleshed and yellow‐fleshed common turnips, and winter and summer turnip rapes. It is shown that there are no constant points of difference between the seedlings of swede turnips and swede rapes, nor between the seedlings of the bulb‐forming turnips and their corresponding leafy turnip rapes. These investigations were carried out at the Agricultural Botanic Garden and in the Department of Agricultural Botany, University of Reading, under the direction of Prof. Percival, to whom I desire to express my cordial thanks for suggestive criticism and assistance with the illustrations.