An Evaluation of Induced Polyploidy as a Method of Breeding Crop Plants
- 1 July 1941
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 75 (759) , 347-363
- https://doi.org/10.1086/280969
Abstract
Induced polyploidy is suggested as a way of restudying the origin, evolution and relationships of crop plants. The author stresses the need of trained cytological help in using polyploidy as an aid in breeding; gives suggestions as to ways of obtaining improved Logan types of berries by the use of polyploid blackberry series; and refers to the origin of the Pacific Coast blackberry from a cross of a dewberry and a black raspberry.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Tetraploid and Aneuploid Melilotus Alba Resulting from Heat TreatmentAmerican Journal of Botany, 1936
- Some Effects of High Temperature on Polyploidy and Other Variations in MaizeProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1932