It is not surprising to have identified some vigorous individuals with the Dw1 locus.
However, some of the vigorous individuals in this population carried Dw1, suggesting that are other loci may influence dwarfing.
The observed differences between the three types would not necessarily be of taxonomic significance, except that F1 hybrids between morphotypes, despite being highly vigorous individuals, may display infertility.
In one striking example, an unidentified armored scale exclusively attacked weak P. rugosa trees on scours, while vigorous individuals of this species in adjacent terrace and talus pile surfaces were not attacked.
Alternatively, overall increased hybrid vigour, accompanying increased average heterozygosity in the F1 hybrid generation, may have led to larger and hence transgressive trait values in more vigorous individuals of crosses between closely related species.
A previous study in a 'M9' × 'R5' rootstock population, enabled us to identify a major dwarfing locus (Dw1) derived from 'M9' and located at the top of linkage group (LG) 5. Some of the vigorous individuals in this population carried Dw1, suggesting that there are one or more additional rootstock loci that influence dwarfing of the scion.
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