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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Genetics, Breeding and Physiology of Parthenocarpy in Lycopersicon Esculentum Mill. (Tomato)
Abstract
dc:description'Severianin' is a tomato line which exhibits facultative parthenocarpy (functional seedless fruit) in some environments. It was found that the expression of parthenocarpy of this line was not due to male or female sterility or self-incompatibility. Environments which favor the expression of parthenocarpy act upon the sporophytic rather than the gametophytic tissue of the plant. Morphological studies showed that fertilization and seed formation do not occur during the development of parthenocarpic fruit of this mutant. Insufficient pollen shed plus rapid growth of the ovary are related to the expression of parthenocarpic fruit under glass-house environments.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Horticulture
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Lin, Steve Shih-Min
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8203517
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71769