Unlike many cereal and vegetable crop plants, apple trees grown from seed of a variety will not produce fruit of that variety. Due to its heterozygous inheritance pattern, each apple variety must be propagated or increased by vegetative means. Since most fruiting varieties of apple do not root readily from cuttings, it is customary to graft them upon the root of another apple tree grown for the purpose. The latter is known horticulturally as a rootstock while the fruiting variety that is grafted on it may be termed the scion.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.111427 |
| Date | January 1958 |
| Creators | Hutchinson, Aleck. |
| Contributors | Taper, C. (Supervisor), Towers, G. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Biology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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