Document Type

Research

Abstract

Ovate fruit is determined by a major recessive gene located in the first chromosome of the tomato. It is allelomorphic to both the round and the oblate types. These in turn are differentiated by a main factor and are allelomorphic to each other. This suggests a multiple allelomorphic series of genes controlling the oblate, round and ovate fruit shapes. Ovate shape (when contrasted with oblate) shows linked inheritance with dwarf growth habit, there being approximately ten or eleven per cent crossing over. There is also close linkage between ovate shape and the peach character of the fruit. High positive correlation exists between fruit shape (measured quantitatively by means of polar and equatorial diameter measurements) and fruit size, suggesting a linkage between shape factors and size factors on the first chromosome.

Publication Date

1928

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

Issue

First Page

199

Last Page

200

Copyright

Language

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Lindstrom, E. W. (1928) "Inheritance of Shape in Tomato Fruits," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 35(1), 199-200.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol35/iss1/32

Download

Comments?

COinS

Inheritance of Shape in Tomato Fruits

Authors