- Persian Lime — seed parent: Lemon
- Persian Lime — pollen parent: Key Lime
- A marker-based study infers a lemon-group seed parent and Mexican lime pollen parent for Persian lime ancestry. This is a group-level molecular inference, not a direct test of the particular Bearss selection represented here; no specific lemon cultivar or tetraploid Key Lime claim is made.
Source [5]: https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcw005
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