Pollen competition in onion (Allium cepa
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Lesley Currah
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Article
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1981
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Springer
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English
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## Pollen mixtures with two components, one of which carried a dominant marker gene for red or white bulb skin colour, were used to pollinate flowers on onion umbels from several cultivars. Scoring progenies for the marker revealed that pollen components differed in their ability to effect fertil