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‘Vegetative Hybridization’ in the Tomato

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THE preliminary results of an experiment on ‘vegetative hybridization’ in the tomato have already been summarized1. The progenies from the grafted plants have now been grown, and the purpose of the present communication is to describe more fully the results in the year of grafting and to report on the behaviour of the progenies of the grafted plants.

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  1. Sachs, L., Nature, 164, 1009 (1949).

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SACHS, L. ‘Vegetative Hybridization’ in the Tomato. Nature 167, 282–283 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167282a0

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