What kind of chromosomes do blueberries have: diploid,ect. What about kiwis?

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A refrence would be nice too

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-Turtle Soup411

Answer 1

This question is surprisingly hard to answer. It turns out that people have done a whole lot of hybridizing and cross-breeding of blueberries so depending on the species they can be diploid, tetraploid, hexaploid or for all I know decaploid (though probably not). You may find the book "Blueberries: A Century of Research" linked below useful. I also found Dr. Vorsa, the director of the Rutgers Blueberry and Cranberry Research Center (I'm not making this stuff up, really) who'd probably be happy to answer in more detail if you need it.

And from the International Society for Horticultural Science's Second International Symposium on Kiwifruit (I would have thought that one symposium should be enough) we find that: The cultivated kiwifruit, Actinidia deliciosa, is a hexaploid species with 6X=174 chromosomes.