RADISH GROSSED WITH CABBAGE

Evening Star, Issue 19918, 14 July 1928, Page 3

RADISH GROSSED WITH CABBAGE

A cross between a radish and a cabbage, considered to bo about tho most difficult feat in plant breeding so far on record, has been made by Dr George D. Karpechenko at the Rptenical Institute at Detskoje Selo, in Russia. The Russian botanist’s work is reported by Professor William Scifriz, of tho University of /Pennsylvania, -who recently visited a number of scientific laboritories and experiment stations in the Soviet Union. Says Science Service’s ‘ Daily Science News Bulletin ’ (Washington); “Although the now plant has no economic significance at present, its development is of much interest to plant breeders, because of the remoteness of the relationship between the parents. The great bulk of our hybrids, both plant and animal, are between varieties of the same species, or even between strains or races of the same _ variety. Hybrids between two species within tho same genus are usually hailed as out of the ordinary; the crossing of the lime and the ku’mquat to produce the limquafc was such a hybrid. There are, however, certain crosses between species that are very common, such as tho mule. Bui the hybridisation of radish and cabbage means that two quite distinct genera have been combined to produce something entirely new under the sun:”