[Graft hybridization and the specificity of heredity in fruit trees]

Yi Chuan. 2004 Sep;26(5):705-10.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

Emphatically discusses the relationship between graft hybridization and the specificity of heredity in fruit trees on the basis of introducing the recent achievements in plant graft hybridization. We propose that genetic materials in rootstock being translocated and integrated into the genome of the germ cells and embryonic cells in scion are the main reasons why the majority of the hybrid seedlings have wild properties and the heredity of fruit trees violate Mendel's laws of heredity. The potential of graft hybridization in fruit breeding are also discussed.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Historical Article
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Austria
  • Breeding*
  • China
  • Crosses, Genetic*
  • England
  • Fruit / genetics
  • Fruit / growth & development
  • Genetics / history
  • Heredity
  • History, 16th Century
  • History, 18th Century
  • History, 19th Century
  • Hybridization, Genetic*
  • Plant Development
  • Plants / genetics*