Abstract
Selection among the progeny of crosses between self-blanching and green varieties of celery has given high yielding, early maturing, self-blanching lines which are less stringy and of better flavour than existing early maturing self-blanching varieties. The crosses were made by using blow-flies to pollinate pairs of non-emasculated self-blanching and green plants enclosed in pollen proof bags. In the progenies from seed harvested only from the self-blanching parents in such crosses, the hybrid seedlings could be distinguished from the non-hybrids by their green colour. Since the self-blanching character was determined by a single recessive gene in the homozygous condition, it was possible to recover true breeding self-blanching plants in the F2 generation. From the F2 generation onwards, all selection for quality characters was made only on self-blanching plants.
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