BOT 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1,4,5: Apple, Rosoideae, Hypanthium
3 Apr 2018
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Produces a variety of dessert fruits: rose subfamily (rosoideae) Produces a variety of dessert fruits didn"t say. Includes an array of fruit producing crops ranging from small berry-like fruit to larger fruit that do not seem very similar on the surface. All produce showy owers with 5 petals and numerous stamen. Diverse fruits which is because of the various developmental pathways that occur following pollination. Accessory fruits = formed when tissue other than the ovary swell into the eshy part of the fruit. Ovary is localized within the core for some pome fruits and a eshy portion is derived from a swollen hypanthium ( oral cup) Originally domesticated from the wild progenitor species malus sievrii. Domesticated in middle east region about 3000-4000 years ago with the rst record of grafting apples from 300 bc. Apples grown today are either diploids or triplets resulting from crosses of diploid ovules and haploid pollen.
