The Nursery Performance of Apomictic Crabapple Seedlings
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https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.1953.8.2.25Abstract
Recent work by Dr. Karl Sax at the Arnold Arboretum near Boston has shown that some of the Asiatic species of apples are apomictic, that is, they produce seeds without sexual union, and the seedlings will therefore be exactly like their parents. Further work has shown that some of these seedling may be suitable for use as rootstocks; and McIntosh scions worked on several of them produced trees which would be commercially acceptable as dwarfs or trees of less than normal size. A few of the tested species were not satisfactory as rootstocks.
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