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Genes for "Reverse" fruit striping in squash (Cucurbita pepo).
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Paris Harry S
Abstract excerpt
Longitudinal striping is a common fruit color pattern in Cucurbita pepo and is conferred by any of several alleles at the light coloration-1 locus. Normally, dark stripes appear over the fruit surface areas between the 10 main subepidermal vein tracts with the lighter background color over and adjacent to these vein tracts. Less commonly, the striping is "reversed," that is, lighter than the background color. The...
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