To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apple Seedling With 3 Cotelydons
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 11:23:58 -0400
I thought that triploid could only reproduce with triploid.
Jim Fruth wrote:
Nick,
If you suspect you have a triploid, try germinating the seed. If it is a
triploid, it cannot divide an uneven number of chromosomes in meiosis and
so, would not produce viable seed.