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The natural origins of some popular varieties of fruit

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While the skill of plant breeders, by their techniques of artificial hybridization, have produced many valuable varieties of edible fruit, other important varieties have arisen by natural hybridization and mutation without the assistance of man. Among them are the Concord grape, Washington navel orange and pink grapefruit.

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Erston V. Miller

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An expansion of an article which appeared under the title “Our Heritage of Good Fruits” in The Scientific Monthly 77(1): 42-48. 1953.

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Miller, E.V. The natural origins of some popular varieties of fruit. Econ Bot 8, 337–348 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02908606

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