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I Have recently carried out investigations to determine the possible influence of gamma irradiation on the breeding affinities of Lolium perenne and Festuca pratensis. These two diploid species have hitherto been considered to be extremely incompatible1, although it so happens that during these investigations a number of highly compatible genotypic combinations were found. I was indeed fortunate to have worked with parental material which on crossing showed four distinct levels of compatibility, ranging from combinations where none of the seeds was viable to those in which as many as 50 per cent of the caryopses germinated, that is, a high seed-compatibility2.
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REUSCH, J. Influence of Gamma Irradiation on the Breeding Affinities of Lolium perenne and Festuca pratensis . Nature 178, 929–930 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178929c0
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