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Hayes and Garber - Cucurbit Breeding

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FRUIT BREEDING 273<br />

The chief conclusions which may be reached from these results<br />

are that nearly all varieties are heterozygous for color <strong>and</strong> that<br />

white is a pure recessive.<br />

In studies of inheritance of quality there is a proof of the value<br />

of selecting as parents the types which excel for the character<br />

being worked with. Table LXXIV gives some of the results<br />

of crosses in which quality was studied.<br />

TABLE LXXIV.<br />

INHERITANCE OF QUALITY IN THE GRAPE<br />

Parental types

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