Abstract:Currence (1938) reported that the number of days to ripe fruit in the tomato was under the genetic control of chromosome 2. Using Lindstrom's (1932) and MacArthur's (1936) original linkage group of d p o s genes Currence showed that at least two distinct regions of the marlted chromosome were associated with time to maturity. One region was marlted by the genes d and p, the other by s.he ilumber o f davs between seeding and the first r i~e fruit was reearded 2 U 1 U as enlbodying the entire time process of m… Show more
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