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A heritable colour deviation in red table beets (Beta vulgaris var. Rubra L.) 2. Mode of inheritance

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A study was made on the inheritance of an orange-yellow colour deviation in red table beets. This disorder proved to be governed by a number of genes, presumably partly acting in an additive and partly in a non-additive way. This problem can largely be solved by simple mass selection.

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  • Nieuwhof, M. & J. W.de Bruyn, 1972. A heritable colour deviation in red table beets (Beta vulgaris var. rubra L.) Euphytica 21: 27–31.

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  1. Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding (IVT), Wageningen, the Netherlands

    M. Nieuwhof & Frida Garretsen

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  1. M. Nieuwhof
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Nieuwhof, M., Garretsen, F. A heritable colour deviation in red table beets (Beta vulgaris var. Rubra L.) 2. Mode of inheritance. Euphytica 23, 365–367 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00035879

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