Character-Building in Plants
ee sk. ee bree NE important feature is the systematic search for additional wild and semi-wild varieties of such plants as wheat, potato and others, in the particular parts of the world in which these plants originated. It is likely that these additional varieties or strains, although probably poor in yield, will possess some or other desirable character and will also be free from the common diseases. Such a strain then can be combined by hybridisation with a cultivated strain of good yield, with the result that, in some cases at least, offspring will be produced combining the desirable character of the newly discovered wild strain with the good yield of the cultivated strain. This, in other words, would result in bringing new blood into our crop plants. For example, botanical expeditions have succeeded in finding certain strains of the potato in the uplands of South America which are frost-resistant, and it is hoped that this character can be introduced into the cultivated potato, (Dr. J. E. Holloway, Winter Course Talk, " The Improvement of Utility Plants," 4YA, July 16.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 58, 2 August 1940, Page 5
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