Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Award Date
1927
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department / School
Botany
Abstract
The Agricultural Census of the United States for 1920 shows that plums rank second to apples in value in comparison with the other orchard fruits, small fruits and grapes produced in South Dakota. There was an eighty-two percent increase in the value of all orchard fruits produced during the year 1919 over the year 1909. The fact that the majority of the more important commercial varieties of plums are entirely self-sterile and others more or less self-sterile is often one reason for the total or partial failure of the orchard to produce fruit when a plot is planted to one variety or to varieties which have defective anthers or pistils. The plant breeder will experience undue discouragement when non-viable pollen is unknowingly used for fertilization in his hybridization work. If more definite information pertaining to the pollen fertility, self-sterility and blossoming dates was available to the commercial orchardist and plant breeder, both could accomplish greater results. With this object in view, the writer undertook an investigation of the problem.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Plum -- Varieties
Format
application/pdf
Publisher
South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
Vance, Russell W., "A Study of Pollen, Sterility, and Blossoming Dates of Plum Varieties in the Experimental Nursery at South Dakota State College During the Spring of 1926" (1927). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5662.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/5662