Claim · model-written summary
Dirksen Thornless tissue culture fruit was larger in one year.
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e0“TC plants of ‘Dirksen Thornless’ actually having larger fruits in one year”
t0“Thornless Blackberries”
Title
Field Performance and Phenotypic Stability of Tissue Culture-propagated Thornless Blackberries1
Harry J. Swartz; Gene J. Galletta; Richard H. Zimmerman Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1983. doi:10.21273/jashs.108.2.285
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Tissue culture plants generally performed as well as standard propagated plants.
- Observation Tissue culture plants were phenotypically similar to standard propagated plants.
- Observation Leaf size and pattern differed in relation to greater tissue culture plant vigor.
- Intervention effect Total growth was similar between propagation methods for four named cultivars.
- Observation Standard propagated Dirksen Thornless and Smoothstem grew more slowly and had significantly reduced second year yields.
- Intervention effect First year growth of tissue culture plants was more uniform.
- Intervention effect Fruit size averaged smaller on tissue culture plants.
- Observation Black Satin tissue culture fruit was smaller in both years.
- Observation Bloom and median harvest dates did not differ consistently by propagation method.
- Observation No variant plants were observed in the field.
- Observation One sectorial chlorotic leaf variant occurred after tissue culture before planting.