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  • From: "Dr. Ethan Natelson" <natelson@pipeline.com>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Apple seed stratification
  • Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 18:58:47 -0500 (EST)

Dear Group,

Dr. Leon Atlas, here in Houston, has frequently stratified apple and
other seeds in the refrigerator in water containing a few drops of Subdue
fungicide. The germination percentage is excellent. His theory is that of
a group of seeds, obtained and stratified at the same time, perhaps from a
series of crosses, those that germinate the earliest will be the ones most
likely to result in a low-chill plant. Those that germinate late, will be
unlikely to be low-chill. For pomologists in the North, this would not be
of importance. In the South, if true, this would be a useful screening
technique. Does anyone know if there is any scientific basis to this theory
or if it has been studied?

Regards, Ethan










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