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Research

Abstract

Both Capsicum and Lycopersicum exhibit the same correlation between fruit shape and fruit size, a correlation which is wholly lacking for the same characters in the Cucurbits. In the pepper both positive and negative correlations of shape and size were discovered in F₂ generations, the sign of the correlation being dependent on the parental combinations. Accordingly the cause for the correlations must be the genetic one of linkage, due to the presence of shape and size genes on the same chromosome, a fact which has already been reported for the tomato. Fruit sizes in both genera exhibit logarithmic rather than additive distributions.

Publication Date

1934

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

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First Page

114

Last Page

114

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Lindstrom, E. W. (1934) "Inheritance of Fruit Shapes and Sizes in the Pepper and Tomato," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 41(1), 114-114.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol41/iss1/25

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Inheritance of Fruit Shapes and Sizes in the Pepper and Tomato

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