Use of bookstack analogy to represent tomato hybridization

Long Description: Two different tomato varieties are represented as a red bookstack and a white bookstack. The hybrid offspring from these parents is represented as a bookstack with half red books and half white books.

L. esculentum x L. peruvianum --> F1 hybrid

50 red books

50 white books

Production of F1 hybrid (bookstack)

image modified from Peggy Lemaux http://ucbiotech.org/

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Mi, Aps-

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