Abstract
Almond (Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A. Webb syn P. amygdalus Batsch), as grown commercially around the world, is essentially self-incompatible and therefore cross-compatible varieties of almonds need to be interplanted within commercial orchards to achieve cross-fertilization and nut set (Jackson and Clarke 1991 a). Much guesswork has gone into the manner of interplanting, as little is understood of the way in which pollen movement (or “gene flow”) takes place so as to achieve pollination of the most valued almond cultivar, Nonpareil, by the other almond cultivars planted in the orchards in California and Australia.
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Jackson, J.F. (1992). Genotype Determination in Almond Nuts for Paternity Analysis. In: Linskens, H.F., Jackson, J.F. (eds) Seed Analysis. Modern Methods of Plant Analysis, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01639-8_1
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