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Tricotyly in the Tomato

Nature volume 179, page 272 (1957)Cite this article

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HASKELL1 found that the proportion of tomato seedlings with divided or extra cotyledons varied from truss to truss on the variety Clucas-99. Seeds from the first and fourth trusses included a higher proportion than the second and third.

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  1. Haskell, G., Nature, 173, 311 (1954).

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  1. Crop Research Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Christchurch, New Zealand

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PALMER, T. Tricotyly in the Tomato. Nature 179, 272 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179272a0

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