Wide Hybridization in Vaccinium

Abstract

Abstract Large scale commercial cultivation of blueberries and the breeding of improved cultivars both began after 1900 (33). Interspecific hybridization has been important in the development of commercial cultivars, and many combinations of species have been crossed in the course of taxonomic studies and in cultivar breeding. Nonetheless, the experimental study of blueberry interspecific hybridization is still in its infancy.