Characteristics of fruit shape in the progeny from a graft-induced change were analysed. Non-pointed, typically inverted-blunt (two-lobed) fruit apex was observed in chimeric state within a scion of Yatsubusa grafted onto Spanish Paprika (inverted-blunt, three-or four-lobed fruit). This frequency of change in fruit shape was unstable in an early generation on the graft.
Key words
Capsicum annuum
- pepper - graft hybrid - fruit shape - nuclear gene change